Achilles | ... . In an almost identical line (X.391) that suggests a formulaic expression, | tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector |
James I | ... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became | , was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ... |
Gustav III of Sweden | ... edish War against Sweden, a conflict instigated by Catherine's cousin, King | , who expected to simply overtake the Russian armies still engaged in war ... |
Malcolm, son of Kenneth II | ... ed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perhaps for | (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) |
Gustaf Vasa | ... h a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King | . This flag was a swallow-tailed (double-tailed), and the first legal desc ... |
Henry Tudor | ... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against | at Bosworth Field |
Augustus | ... ndar. The calendar reforms were completed during the reign of his successor | . Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 BC ... |
Llywelyn the Great | ... ng and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince | |
William the Conqueror | ... father Eustace II appeared at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 as an ally of | , and is listed as a possible killer of Harold II; he is also believed to ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... arried Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of | and his wife Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her materna ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... ge was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, King | of Poland, who was also his uncle. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, ... |
Edward V of England | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to | and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ... |
GDRT | ... E, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another. | of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs, signing an alliance ... |
John III's | ... banners. Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of King | duchy, which is today Finland Proper. The same coat of arms is still used ... |
Henry VIII | ... whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Arms to | in 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace f ... |
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and | . The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ... |
Charles I | ... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King | |
Domitian | ... he Jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius | (between 1.9.93 and 14.3.94, cf. AJ X.267). In expounding Jewish history, ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... rial army. The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of | , was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and an ... |
Robert III | ... able to be crowned more or less immediately. This was when, on the death of | in 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James wa ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on | by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ... |
Lady Diana Spencer | ... dest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to | , or break off their courtship. Charles felt pressured by his father to ma ... |
Kenneth, son of Dub | ... ed mac Maíl Coluim ("Kenneth son of Malcolm"), probably in error for either | (Cináed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perha ... |
King Henry II | ... de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. | , who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed William d'Aubigny as Earl ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
Cosimo de' Medici | ... llace Collection. This weapon is engraved with the personal coat of arms of | , Duke of Florence |
St Edward the Martyr | ... he solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II, soon to be known as | , from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of | and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their father's death. Sometim ... |
Alexander the Great | ... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
Nero | ... centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as | , and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls i ... |
Henri I | ... 06. The country was then divided between a kingdom in the north directed by | ; and a republic in the south directed by Alexandre Pétion, an homme de co ... |
Herod Antipas | ... ore precise than Mark in the titles he gives to rulers, and initially gives | the correct title of "tetrarch", yet he lapses into calling him "king" at ... |
Danaus | ... their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for | .) The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, do ... |
Mohammed bin Thani | ... tinctness of Qatar from Bahrain and explicitly acknowledged the position of | , an important representative of the peninsula's tribes |
Stephen of England | ... V (c. 1129 – 17 August 1153), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of King | and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English thr ... |
Joshua | ... ereafter, Hebron is said to have been wrested from the Canaanites by either | , Judah or Caleb. The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is t ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
Danaus | In Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of | . As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identica ... |
John I of Castile | ... erdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married king | , but popular sentiment was against an arrangement in which Portugal would ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... nce and central Europe. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when | Francis II kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These ach ... |
Yuan Hao | ... n garrison towns, he sent his general Chen Qingzhi to support the pretender | . Despite the fact that Chen was only given 7,000 troops, Chen still manag ... |
Dhu Nuwas | ... d the Sabaean kingdom. They traded from the port of al-Muza on the Red Sea. | , a Himyarite king, changed the state religion to Judaism in the beginning ... |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ntil Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, | , in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d'Este, the exiled male li ... |
Emperor Gong of Western Wei | ... AD). Afterwards, Yuwen Tai's son Yuwen Jue seized the throne of power from | , establishing the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557–580 AD). The Northern Zhou D ... |
Magnus Birgersson's | ... a combination of King Albert of Mecklenburg's coat of arms of 1364 and King | coat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross patt ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ted with the Royal Family (for instance, immediately following the death of | ). However, recent polls show that around 70–80% of the British public sup ... |
Haakon V | ... peared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret; she was executed by | , King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301 |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
Joseph II | On Maria Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son | , already Holy Roman Emperor since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer h ... |
Baldwin of Bourcq | ... he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative, | , had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died ... |
Honorius | ... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor | |
Crown Prince | ... Loerzer had been regularized. They were assigned as a team to FFA 25 in the | 's Fifth Army – "though it seems that they had to steal a plane in order t ... |
Alfonso X of Castile | ... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by | in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ... |
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Xiang Yu | ... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders, | (d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ... |
John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | ... ncess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her maternal grandfather was | . In 1725 Charles Albert visited Versailles for the wedding of Louis XV an ... |
Henry III | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor | . Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she w ... |
Caracalla | ... atterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by Septimius Severus and | , who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. The city was th ... |
Alexander the Great | ... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of | (Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ... |
Baldwin of Boulogne | ... 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and | . He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married Mary of ... |
Alexander the Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
Alfred the Great | ... yfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by | to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was rec ... |
Richard | ... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother, | , (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
Pope John Paul II | ... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998, | made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ... |
Gustaf Vasa | ... 20, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King | , who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish ... |
Henry of Anjou | ... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young | . According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ... |
Catherine the Great | ... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia and | of Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ... |
Yazdegerd III | ... h Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, | , six thousand years of history of Iran. The task of Ferdowsi was to preve ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
Louis the German | ... ildren, but one illegitimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, | and Charles the Bald, agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 8 ... |
Nimrod | ... ified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical | , who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire. In many moder ... |
Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia | ... icholas was identified from DNA obtained from among others his late brother | . Grand Duke George had died of tuberculosis in the late 1890s and was bur ... |
Christian II | ... ho successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King | in 1521 |
Offa of Mercia | ... ounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon King | was buried in the town in 796. In 886 it became a boundary town separating ... |
Pol Pot | ... Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by | , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea w ... |
Edward I | ... tagonist, a fictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of | and Kublai Khan. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compa ... |
Anne of Denmark | ... 00. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, | , the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark also lived at the Palace until t ... |
Justin I | ... the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor | invaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan ask ... |
Kim Il-sung | In April 1982, | announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ... |
Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
Casimir IV | ... tiated with Lithuania in the hope of placing itself under the protection of | , King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania, a would-be alliance regard ... |
Augustus | ... ius Caesar in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of | in 8 BC |
Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
Shah Jahan | ... ed the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince | , the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out ... |
Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
Erichthonius | ... A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/ | through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate that Erichtho ... |
King Harold | ... shire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of | and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. Sitsylt is the original Wels ... |
Achilles | ... s married the Ocean goddess Thetis. Peleus later gave the horses to his son | who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 by | enabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ... |
Constantine | ... he popes and the church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors | and Theodosius, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western ... |
Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria | He and his wife | were parents of seven children |
another brother | ... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and | were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ... |
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
Mahmud of Ghazni | ... reports that the final edition of the Shahnameh sent to the court of Sultan | was prepared in seven volumes |
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan | ... antine Emperor Justin I invaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, | asked for help from the Persians, so the Persians sent all of their crimin ... |
Agustin de Iturbide | Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of | , a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Centr ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... t the Jewish religion." These were the charges brought by the government of | and Isabella I of Castile against the Jews. They constituted the grounds f ... |
Hadrian | ... known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town refers to the emperor, | , with an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-consciou ... |
Æthelred | ... accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her own son | to reign. Through the influence of Dunstan, Eadward was chosen and crowned ... |
Kutalmish | ... e was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother. Alp Arslan and his uncle | both contested this succession. Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the thro ... |
Maximilian I | In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor | established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
Leopold II | ... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother, | , previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ... |
Theodosius | ... church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors Constantine and | , later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, ... |
Xiang Yu | ... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when | burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC |
James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
David II of Scotland | A number of British monarchs were born in Dunfermline Palace. These include | (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from | , which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ... |
Vasili | ... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son | |
Charles I of England | ... ert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland (reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and | , King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI ... |
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani | ... y over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, | , signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial sys ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
Julius Caesar | ... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, | built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ... |
Nero | ... Barrett incarnated Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of | , who falls in love with a young woman and converts to Christianity for he ... |
Peleus | Poseidon gave the two horses to King | of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by | and Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ... |
Caracalla | ... iption of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-conscious Roman emperor, | , once came here to ease his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aure ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | He was born in Brussels as the son of | , and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ... |
Girolamo Savonarola | ... the courtly poet Girolamo Benivieni, and probably the young Dominican monk | . For the rest of his life he remained very close friends with all three, ... |
Henry VII | ... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor | , to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon and | against the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ... |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... ame coat of arms is still used by the province. Not until the reign of King | in the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with ... |
King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
Empress Matilda | ... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the | , and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou |
Malcolm III of Scotland | ... pe to administer his domains. He married Mary of Scotland, daughter of King | , and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, Matil ... |
Augustus | ... nd his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first emperor, | , (r. 27 BC–AD 19), had shared power with his colleagues and more formal o ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... ke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and | alive at the time of their father's death. Sometime around 1483, it is ass ... |
Nestor | As the battle turned against the Greeks, thanks to the influence of Zeus, | declared that the Trojans were winning because Agamemnon had angered Achil ... |
Alexander III of Scotland | ... e was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Margaret, daughter of King | . Margaret was born in Tønsberg, on 9 April 1283, while her mother did not ... |
Khosrau I | During the reign of the later Sassanid king | (531–579), a gift from an Indian king (possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of ... |
brother | ... e members of his dynasty to die of natural causes. Both Edward's father and | were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and another ... |
Finarfin | Dorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, two of the sons of | , under the suzerainty of their older brother Finrod. The north-eastern ar ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from | (r. 161–180) on |
Charlemagne | ... or, he should rule in Aachen, the capital of the first Carolingian emperor, | , and in Rome, the ancient capital of emperors. Middle Francia (Latin Fran ... |
Artemisia I of Caria | ... iopian Apollo. In the early 5th century Halicarnassus was under the sway of | (also known as Artemesia of Halicarnassus ), who made herself famous as a ... |
Odin | ... e "-", anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, the son of god | |
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan | ... . One way to help get rid of the criminals in jail, and help their new ally | |
Drusus Germanicus | ... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, | , who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse |
Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
Edward the Elder | ... rating Wessex and Danelaw. It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford. In 919 | built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse ... |
King Farouk I | ... ssador in Tehran. In the same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of | , married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then crown prince (later shah) of Ira ... |
Carus | ... sily removed from power. In contrast, just a few years earlier, the emperor | and his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first empero ... |
Frederick I of Denmark | On 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King | , thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... mber of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and | from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ers dated no later than August 1131. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to | , whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she ... |
Eric II of Norway | She was the daughter of King | and Margaret, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland. Margaret was bor ... |
Henri Christophe | ... was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion. | renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassination of Jacques I at P ... |
grandfather | ... ward's father and brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his | and another brother were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were impr ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after | . On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ... |
Ardashir I | ... and 7th centuries AD (Common Era). This ancient Persian text refers to Shah | , who ruled from 224–241, as a master of the game |
Henry VIII | ... ard Family were Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of | . Both women were nieces of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who played ... |
Mohammed bin Thani | ... Empire into eastern Arabia in 1871, Qatar became vulnerable to occupation. | opposed Ottoman designs on Qatar, but his son, Jassim bin Mohammed, accept ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
Edward (II) "the Martyr" | ... ar died two years after his coronation, and was succeeded by his eldest son | . His accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her ... |
Xiao Dong | ... ering. Despite Emperor Wu's assurances, Hou decided to rebel in the name of | , the grandson of the former crown prince Xiao Tong who died in 531 AD and ... |
Shah Jahan | ... en he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas". Fearing the worst | sealed an official Firman allowing the English to trade in Gujarat in the ... |
Xiang Yu | ... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon | appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ... |
Harald I of Norway | ... tacks upon the Viking peoples. Another possible contributing factor is that | ("Harald Fairhair") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of th ... |
Henry VIII | ... e of Repeal Act (1553); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of | were repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The ... |
Claudius | The Emperor | paid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ... |
Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
Ferdinand I | On the death of his half-brother | without a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
Alfonso IX of León | ... i had established himself in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both | and Sancho II of Portugal opportunistically ordered their own raids into A ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ntury the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war. When the dust settled, | emerged as emperor, establishing the Severan dynasty. Unlike previous empe ... |
Memnon | ... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When | , king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ... |
George Tupou V | In July 2008, three days before his coronation, King | announced that he would relinquish most of his power and be guided by his ... |
Merewalh | ... h and Hlothhere's accession. Another Mercian connection to Kent was through | , the king of the Magonsæte, and hence a subking under Wulfhere. Merewalh, ... |
Ferdinand III of Castile | ... aeza. He set up a rebel camp and forged an alliance with the hitherto quiet | . Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheik ... |
Louis IV | ... emperor at Frankfurt. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach Emperor after | and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of Rupert of G ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the | books |
Laius | ... of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth, | was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and became the tutor of Chrysippus, yo ... |
Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
Numa Pompilius | | , the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, reformed the calendar ... |
Emperor Charles VII | ... a to the Prussians. In 1745, following the reign of the Bavarian Elector as | , Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
Cephalus | ... nal Orion could be made immortal, as well as an astronomical scene in which | is thought to stand in for Orion and his constellation, also reflecting th ... |
Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... left with the prisoners. Alexandra kept only two bracelets which her uncle, | , had given her as a child and which she could not take off. He did not kn ... |
Cephalus | ... mage:Cephalus and Aurora - Poussin - 1627-30 National Gallery, London.jpg | | and Aurora - Nicolas Poussin - 1627 - National Gallery, London |
Talaus | He was a son of | and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls he ... |
King John | ... meaning navel, because it was thought to be the navel of England. In 1203, | granted Naseby its market charter and the village became a flourishing mar ... |
Henry IV | ... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as | |
Mithridates I of Parthia | ... g Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by | had overrun uppland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo) by | |
Henry VI | ... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of | 's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ... |
Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
GDRT | ... riod the Kingdom of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs. King | of Aksum acted by dispatching troops under his son, BYGT, sending them fro ... |
Constantine | In 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus, Maximinus and | were declared filii Augustorum ("sons of the Augusti"), but Maximinus prob ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... im after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom - just as | had done seventy years earlier. As he marched southwards he began to gathe ... |
Lynceus | ... meless, was eventually reconciled with her father, and given in marriage to | , with whom she founded a race of kings that led to Danae, the mother of P ... |
Odin | ... Munin, two Common Ravens who whispered news into the ears of the Norse god | . In several civilizations of ancient Italy, particularly Etruscan and Rom ... |
Alfonso VIII of Castile | In 1187, King | made the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander par ... |
Erichthonius | ... t she eluded him. His semen fell to the earth and impregnated the soil, and | was born from the Earth, Gaia. Athena then raised the baby as a foster mot ... |
Tigranes the Great | Mithridates' ambitious son-in-law, | , king of Armenia, however, saw opportunity for expansion in the constant ... |
Achaemenes | His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian name | as Greek and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction" |
King Hussein | ... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria. | , who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ... |
Louis the Younger | ... n Lotharingia but was defeated near Andernach by Louis. In 879 Louis's son, | , was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed Louis ... |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother | . The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ... |
Chen Shubao | ... er and morale, along with convincing propaganda that the Chen Dynasty ruler | was a decadent ruler who had lost the Mandate of Heaven, the Sui Dynasty w ... |
Dermot MacMurrough | ... x Ireland and bring the Irish church into line with Rome. Around 1170, King | of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King Rory O'Connor of Connacht. ... |
Polybus of Corinth | ... th, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless King | as if he were his own |
King Charles I | ... oor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by | , battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax ... |
Diocletian | ... These reforms were finally realized late in the century under the reign of | , one of them being to divide the empire into an eastern and western half, ... |
Richard I | ... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's son | to the throne of England |
Justinian | ... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor | 's decree that forbade the worship of Amun |
Monivong | ... amily. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court of King | . Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolution ... |
Sancho II of Portugal | ... lf in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both Alfonso IX of León and | opportunistically ordered their own raids into Andalusian territory that s ... |
Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
David II of Scotland | ... here King John II of France was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King | at Neville's Cross. During this period, the Tower of London held many nobl ... |
Qin Er Shi | ... worked, and the younger son Huhai became the Second Emperor, later known as | or "Second Generation Qin. |
Edward VI | In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, | , to the English throne. Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicis ... |
Hadrian | ... in agony under the heel of the emperor. She appeared on coins issued under | , as a more regal-looking female figure. Britannia was soon personified as ... |
Sarpedon | ... of Eetion. Pedasos was mortal, but he could keep up with the divine horses. | , prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed P ... |
Don Carlos | ... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infante | in exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ... |
Camillus | ... sacked Rome. The Romans then took up arms and drove the Gauls back, led by | . The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... Younger, was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed | , Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, C ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011, | stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ... |
Prince George, the new Prince of Wales | ... e of the Prince. Upon the Prince's death in 1751, the education of his son, | , became a priority and in 1755 Bute was appointed as his tutor. Bute arra ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
Odin | The Norse god | in his many forms, astride his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, came to be ass ... |
Shah Jahan | ... ab. He was succeeded by his third son, Prince Khurram who took the title of | . Jahangir's elegant mausoleum is located in the Shahdara locale of Lahore ... |
Henry II of England | In the 12th century the only English pope, Adrian IV, authorised King | to take possession of Ireland as a feudal territory nominally under papal ... |
Vonones II of Parthia | ... Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of | , and his coronation by Nero in 66 AD confirmed the end of a war between P ... |
Laius | ... t of religious pollution, caused because the murderer of their former King, | , had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him ... |
James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
Nero | ... ring the state visit to Rome of Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of | . (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthia, and his coronation by N ... |
Roger II of Sicily | ... n Castle, widely known as the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle), was built by | around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by Frederick II of Hohensta ... |
John | ... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brother | to the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ... |
Henry II | His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future | to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. Th ... |
third wife | ... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's | |
Edward Bruce | Around Lent of 1314, | , brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ... |
Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
Edward | ... by Portuguese historians as the "illustrious generation" (Ínclita Geração): | , the future king, was a poet and a writer; Peter, the Duke of Coimbra, wa ... |
Organa | ... uly 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in DVD by | through Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary The Hollywood ... |
Hu Jintao | ... has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbent President is | , who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and i ... |
John II Komnenos | ... y set afoot by his mother-in-law Irene Doukaina and his wife Anna to depose | , the son of Alexios, and raise himself to the throne. His wife attributed ... |
Constantine | ... divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius and | began to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secr ... |
Polynices | ... aughter of Pronax, or to Demonassa. His daughters Argea and Deipyle married | and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, Aegialeus, a ... |
John Paul II | ... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope | , head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ... |
Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
King Henry VIII's | ... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after | third wife |
Kenneth II | Constantine became king upon the death of | (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cunc ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
Otto I | ... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of | . In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ... |
Emperor Yuan of Liang | ... f his generals Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself | . His brother Xiao Ji based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Y ... |
John Balliol | ... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and | |
Sparta | ... came a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian War, he joined the side of the | ns and assisted them with mercenaries |
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales | ... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later met | there, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ... |
Cecrops | ... fered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king, | ) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the oli ... |
Tiridates I of Armenia | ... tells how the name of Mithras was spoken during the state visit to Rome of | , during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthi ... |
Cuilén, King of Scotland | ... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of | (Cuilén mac Iduilb) |
Baudouin | ... ave been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King | of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Pri ... |
Emperor | ... capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the | Valentinian I. Ambrose never married |
Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
the Queen | ... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to | . On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ... |
Qabus | ... ur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents. | , the generous ruler of Dailam and central Persia, himself a poet and a sc ... |
Louis XIV | ... return to the stage in 1659. He wrote the play Oedipe, which was favored by | . In the next year, Corneille published Trois discours sur le poème dramat ... |
Charles the Bald | ... itimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, Louis the German and | , agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 870 they came to an a ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
Henry III of England | ... ecclesiastical office. In the name of his fellow bishops he admonished King | at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, Kin ... |
Henri Christophe | ... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King | 's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ... |
Queen Mary I | ... d-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from | , some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged. "Weaned off u ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
Daniel of Galicia | ... augas, along with the Samogitians of western Lithuania, the Livonian Order, | (Tautvilas and Edivydas' brother-in-law), and Vasilko of Volhynia. The pri ... |
Sparta | ... manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of | , the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon |
Timur Leng | ... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
Attila | The few demonstrably historical characters mentioned in the poems, like | , provide a terminus post quem of sorts. The dating of the manuscripts the ... |
Suleiman the Magnificent | On 29 August 1526, Louis led his forces against | of the Ottoman Empire in the disastrous Battle of Mohács. During the retre ... |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ... |
Ferdinand III | In 1799, King | created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ... |
Basil II | ... hen led his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor | , and collected several relics during his campaign |
Diomedes of Thrace | ... not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of | , who fed these animals on human flesh. The capture of these horses was th ... |
Edward II of England | ... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King | had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ... |
Prince Rainier III | ... the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, | ; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope J ... |
Charles VI | ... d claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty after the death of | in 1740. With the treaty of Nymphenburg concluded in July 1741, Charles Al ... |
Tarquin the Proud | ... ic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the seven kings of Rome, | , was deposed by Lucius Junius Brutus, and a system based on annually elec ... |
Galerius | ... 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor | near their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the D ... |
Joshua | ... control and ruled by the three sons of Anak, descendants of the Nephilim ( | 10:5,6). The Book of Genesis mentions that it was formerly called Kirjath- ... |
Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
Princess Grace of Monaco | ... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been | and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ... |
Isaac I Komnenos | ... ials for a History", ) of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory of | over Michael VI to the dethronement of Nikephoros III Botaneiates by Alexi ... |
Harry | ... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and | , wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ... |
Peter | ... ration" (Ínclita Geração): Edward, the future king, was a poet and a writer | ;, the Duke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; a ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
Edward I | ... of Chelsea (Chelsey), Kensington (Kensing town) and Charing. In the time of | , the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It w ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
Alexander I | ... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar | . Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ... |
Roman Emperor | ... – July or August 313), also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, was | from 308 to 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
King Edward VIII | In 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future | ) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ... |
St Louis | ... rchbishops, the two generals of the Carthusians and Cistercians, the king ( | ), and three of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and ... |
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George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
Amphiaraus | ... her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iphis and | , the husband of Adrastus's sister Eriphyle. He was married either to Amph ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President | |
Francis of Lorraine | ... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband | , Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ... |
Simon de Montfort | In 1248, | was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ... |
Abdallah al-Adil | ... raised by one of them, then governor in Murcia, who declared himself Caliph | . With the help of his brothers, he quickly seized control of al-Andalus. ... |
Henry VI | ... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian | and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ... |
Queen Victoria | Various visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably | and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. K ... |
Xiao Ji | ... en Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His brother | based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Yuan asked for assistan ... |
Napoleon III | ... was then nicknamed the European summer capital and reached its zenith under | during the 1850s and 1860s. The Russian writer, Dostoevsky, wrote The Gamb ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under | |
Mithridates VI of Pontus | ... lly active during the Mithridatic wars (between the Roman Republic and King | ) in which they supported the king. The association between Mithridates an ... |
Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
George IV | ... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King | . The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ... |
Ermengarde of Tours | He married | , who died in 851 |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their uncle | was crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ... |
Organa | ... This Special Edition with the Hollywood Ten film is still available through | at organa.com. In 2004, a budget edition DVD was released by Alpha Video. ... |
Lycurgus | When King | of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the fo ... |
Ferdinand II | ... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg | |
Muhammad | ... al-Qadr is the night in which the Qur'an was first revealed to the Prophet | . Also, it is believed to have occurred on an odd-numbered night during th ... |
Simon bar Kokhba | ... leader, and burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of | in 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's ... |
Jehoiakim | ... Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with | . He brought Jehoahaz back to Egypt as his prisoner, where Jehoahaz ended ... |
Henry III | ... eigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes. | yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's adminis ... |
Ho Chi Minh | In 1930 | founded the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist ... |
Caesar | ... re classics. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by | , and the month of August is named after him. Augustus' enlightened rule r ... |
Henry II | ... ddle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress. Incorporated first by | , a new charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1589. A high stone wall was bu ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
Galerius | In 305, his maternal uncle | became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ... |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of | , sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic ... |
John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
Nabopolassar | ... lonian king was planning on reasserting his power in Syria. In 609 BC, King | captured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish ... |
Philippa of Lancaster | John I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 | , daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaste ... |
Henry VI | ... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after | , as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ... |
Gaston, Duke of Orléans | On two occasions the King's younger brother, | had to leave France for conspiring against the King's government, and for ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with | during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ... |
Queen Mary | ... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and | in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ... |
Numa Pompilius | Rome's second king, | (r. 715-673 BC), is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its hou ... |
Alaric | ... negotiation to Leo. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of | —who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause |
the Queen | ... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go to | and have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ... |
Menahem | ... ssume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his father | 's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III, as is rec ... |
Edward the Confessor | ... there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval residents included | , who had a palace at Brill, and John Wycliffe who lived in |
Edward | ... ascony, pursuing a policy of conciliation; he arranged the marriage between | , his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfo ... |
James I of England | ... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of | (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ... |
Licinius | In 308, after the elevation of | to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ... |
Offa | ... Crane or Yeading Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made by | in 790 to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on lin ... |
Ahaz | ... began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successor | began to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The Hohenstaufen Emperor | created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ... |
Murad IV | ... national drink of Ethiopia for people of all faiths. In the Ottoman Empire, | attempted to prohibit coffee drinking to Muslims as haraam, arguing that i ... |
Amphiaraus | Afterwards, however, Adrastus became reconciled to | , gave him his sister Eriphyle in marriage, and returned to his kingdom of ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales | The third creation was on 10 November 1399, for | , eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ... |
Henry VIII | ... ongside population growth, inflation was a major reason for enclosure. When | became King in 1509, the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the p ... |
Justinian I | ... t. Eventually it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperor | erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century C ... |
Akbar | ... verge of conversion," a notion which proved to be very false. Instead, both | and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted ... |
Princess Royal | ... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the | (as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta ( | ), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... ign of James I of England (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). | (1643–1715), though Catholic, strongly promoted the theory as well |
Muhammad | ... ssed in some verses of Qur'an, but is explicitly declared in the sayings of | |
Pekahiah | ... year of Azariah (Uzziah) of Judah, i.e. in 740 BC. Also, Pekah assassinated | to assume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his f ... |
Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | . From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ... |
Charlemagne | The Kingdom of the Franks under | was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine wi ... |
Genghis Khan | ... al system in the world was established by Ugedei Khan, who was successor of | of Mongolian empire in thirteen century, which territory included China. D ... |
Hyrcanus II | 10. | , 67–66 BC |
Alfonso X | ... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of | . Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ... |
Chulalongkorn | ... at and any attempts at colonialization. By 1887 during the next reign, King | a permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established. Ho ... |
Emperor Meiji | ... most famous such incident was his refusal to bow deeply to the portrait of | and the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the ... |
Salome Alexandra | 9. | , 76–67 BC |
Thutmose III | ... arran. Although Necho became the first pharaoh to cross the Euphrates since | , he failed to capture Harran, and retreated back to northern Syria. At th ... |
Jotham of Judah | ... d by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of | . (; ; compare ; ; ) Tiglath-Pileser in an inscription mentions the slayin ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... use and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace. Later | (r. 673-642 BC) enclosed the Comitium around the old Etruscan temple where ... |
Henry IV | In order to continue the exploration efforts of his predecessor | , Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet un ... |
Maxentius | ... e another, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper Caesar | , who controlled Italy. He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, h ... |
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani | ... crisis in which the main candidates were Abdullah bin Jassim's eldest son, | , and Hamad bin Abdullah's teenage son, Khalifa ibn Hamad Al Thani |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... s of Hungary and Bohemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by | Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by ... |
Charles the Bold | ... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons against | of Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ... |
Henry VI | ... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of | . The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ... |
Archelaus | ... in The Bacchae. Since Euripides wrote this play while in the court of King | of Macedon, some scholars believe that the cult of Dionysus was malicious ... |
Odin | In Baldrs draumar, | rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He bring ... |
Edward VI | ... tion (and therefore enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset was Protector of | . Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outco ... |
Muhammad | ... al known as Iftar. The meal starts with the eating of three dates — just as | used to do. Then it's time for the Maghrib prayer, which is the fourth of ... |
Shah of Iran | ... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the | . It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ... |
George II | ... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, | ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ... |
Kutalmish | ... onjectured from Ibn al-Athir’s account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and | , in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and great ... |
Cao Pi | ... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When | , King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ... |
Aegialeus | ... ied Polynices and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, | , and Cyanippus |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... n 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are | , Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen |
Aristobulus II | 11. | , 66–63 BC |
Enver Hoxha | ... n actors whose films were allowed in the country during the dictatorship of | . In Hoxha's view, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles ag ... |
Artemisia | ... whom – in their turn, succeeded him in the sovereignty; and two daughters, | and Ada, who were married to their brothers Mausolus and Idrieus |
Alexander I | ... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperor | to remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ... |
Vespasian | ... ebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and burnt down by | 's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innum ... |
Jotham of Judah | ... is starting date in 752 BC. This date is consistent with the statement that | began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successo ... |
The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
Melikshah | ... (the Treaty of Devol, 1108); and played an important part in the defeat of | , the Seljuq sultan of Rûm (1116) |
Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani | ... ebt and, in preparation for his retirement, groomed his favored second son, | , to be his successor. Hamad bin Abdullah's death in 1948, however, led to ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law | of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses |
Henry VIII | ... ce. Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of | , and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It i ... |
King George V | ... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by | and Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ... |
Rudolph I | ... ad already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When the rightful king, | heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and ... |
Justina | ... ved a formidable task for Ambrose. In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother | , along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially militar ... |
Hyrcanus II | 12. | , 63–40 BCE (restored but demoted to Ethnarch |
Ada | ... ir turn, succeeded him in the sovereignty; and two daughters, Artemisia and | , who were married to their brothers Mausolus and Idrieus |
Charles II | ... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King | , is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ... |
Kublai Khan | ... teen century, which territory included China. During the Yuan Dynasty under | , China was integrated first into the much larger Örtöö system of the Mong ... |
Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
Diodotus Tryphon | ... rters — first supporting Balas' son Antiochus VI, then the usurping general | — held out in Antioch |
Xiao Yuanming | ... efeats to the forces of Northern Qi, Wang Sengbian allowed their pretender, | to establish himself as Emperor Min of Liang. However, Chen Baxian was dis ... |
Amphiaraus | ... uring a feud between the most powerful houses in Argos, Talaus was slain by | , and Adrastus being expelled from his dominions fled to Polybus, then kin ... |
Charles IV | In 1325, the land was confiscated by | when Edward II of England, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to ... |
Hoshea | Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by | , the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of ... |
Irene Doukaina | ... ios, he refused to enter into the conspiracy set afoot by his mother-in-law | and his wife Anna to depose John II Komnenos, the son of Alexios, and rais ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by | on October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the . |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... hn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of | and Blanche of Lancaster. From that marriage were born several famous prin ... |
Judas Maccabeus | 2. | , 167–160 BC |
Charles the Simple | In 911, French King | was able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain ... |
Sophia of Hanover | ... lement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of | (1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I |
Claudius | It would seem that in the reign of | (41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ... |
Ferdinand III of Castile | ... tacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, | and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the ... |
George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
Sparta | ... back to the 5th century BC, during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and | . Spartan forces besieging an Athenian city placed a lighted mixture of wo ... |
14th Dalai Lama | ... ment sales. Political meetings between foreign government officials and the | are also opposed by China, as it considers Tibet to be formally part of Ch ... |
Sparta | | was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece |
Philip III of Spain | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of | . This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political a ... |
Abdur Rahman Khan | ... after the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880 when the nation was ruled by Emir | . Traditionally, Afghan governments relied on three military institutions: ... |
Lycurgus | ... n account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. Pentheus or | ) |
Henry VII | ... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought by | made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ... |
Marie-Louise | ... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married | , an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
Dushyanta | ... o sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh, | , and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas) |
Jayavarman VII | ... King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor | , and in the present period. He is currently at work on a new historical n ... |
Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
Conradine | ... latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The | Gebhard, Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Chur ... |
Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg | ... and the elevation of several members of the gentry to peers of the Empire. | was declared full age ahead of time in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prin ... |
Emperor Yizong of Tang | ... tten by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang (daughter of | ) playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan (the family ... |
Conan the Barbarian | The pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of the character | among others, lived in Cross Plains from the age of 13 until his death by ... |
Guy III of Spoleto | ... Arnulf their king, possibly under coercion. Arnful was initially opposed by | , who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by Rudolph of Auxerre, wh ... |
Mary | ... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen | . With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ... |
Murat | ... were too great. Caffarelli's men halted the Russian assaults and permitted | to send two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by d'Hautpoul and the othe ... |
Eurytion | ... when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd | out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. |
James I of Aragon | ... by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and | . The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the Christian reconquista ... |
Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ... |
Khosrau II | ... CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when | 's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
Al-Muizz Lideenillah | ... ion, the origin of which is said to lie in the Fatimid era where the Caliph | was greeted by people holding lanterns to celebrate his ruling. From that ... |
Aragorn | ... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of | . As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ... |
Constantius II | About the same time, he wrote to Emperor | a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ... |
Edward I | ... d. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and | brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town. New ... |
Aristobulus I | 7. | , 104–103 BC |
King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and Spain with Royal marriages. The tradition went back to the marriage of | with the French Princess, Elisabeth of Valois. The marriage was only brief ... |
Gilgamesh | ... tenrose also sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, | , Dushyanta, and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas) |
Gratian | ... e as heads of the pagan priesthood, as would his Christian successors on to | (r. 375–83). According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... am, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland, | , thus the personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was confirmed. Many of the P ... |
Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
Henry VIII | ... the Succession", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of | , from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.) Cecil resisted for a whil ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah | , who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ... |
Arnulf of Carinthia | When in November 887 | called a council of the East Frankish nobility to depose Charles the Fat, ... |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... against the feeble Michael VII, but had been defeated by the future Emperor | and was blinded. The son, who was distinguished for his learning, personal ... |
Emperor Wen of Liu Song | ... aoism was highly influential during the Southern Dynasty, to the point that | established a Neo-Daoist Academy and promoted it, along with Confucianism, ... |
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony | ... Diet of Worms) because he was unexpectedly backed by German princes such as | who strongly objected to the Catholic Church meddling in their affairs and ... |
Alexander Jannaeus | 8. | , 103–76 BC |
Zwentibold | ... ent himself with a rump state. In 895 Arnulf appointed his illegitimate son | King of Lotharingia. He ruled independently until he was overthrown and ki ... |
King Arthur | ... fairies; its leaders also varied, but they included Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd, | , Nuada, King Herla, Woden, the Devil and Herne the Hunter. Many legends a ... |
Emperor Wen of Chen | ... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as | . After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ... |
Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
Peter IV | ... his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future | |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | Demetrius Nicator's brother, | , took the throne after his brother's capture. He faced the titanic chore ... |
Ashur-dan III | ... . He succeeded his father Adad-nirari III, and was succeeded by his brother | . Very little information about his reign has survived |
Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
Richard III | ... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions. | had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ... |
Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
Charles the Bold | ... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of | in 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ... |
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV | ... titution. A copy of the commission's report was presented to the late king, | , shortly before his death in September 2006 and is currently under study ... |
Mary I | ... hat he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen | , he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay st ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... t elect a replacement until 925, when under Gilbert's leadership they chose | , the East Frankish king. In 930 Gilbert's decision was rewarded and he re ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... therlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and | . From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , P ... |
Akbar | ... hem various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delight | held for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mugha ... |
Theodosius I | ... e powerful adversaries. The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens' successor | (who accepted them once more as allies), were to remain as a distinct enti ... |
Cephalus | ... ss; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of Oenomaus), | , Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also sees Easte ... |
Charles V | ... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor | ) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ... |
King | ... e in Iraq and Qatif in opposition to the Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain. | Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared a three-month state of emergency on 15 M ... |
James II | ... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of | and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ... |
George Tupou V | ... s death in September 2006 and is currently under study by the present king, | , and members of parliament |
Peter III of Russia | ... 761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as | , and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple move ... |
Shahrbaraz | ... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general | in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
Elizabeth | ... hern fortress. Incorporated first by Henry II, a new charter was granted by | in 1589. A high stone wall was built around the town in the 13th century, ... |
Emperor Ferdinand I | ... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later | |
Sadyattes | ... –560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of | , of the house of the Mermnadae |
Galerius | ... rship whichever deity they chose. A similar edict had been issued in 311 by | , then senior emperor of the Tetrarchy; Galerius' edict granted Christians ... |
Mary of Guise | ... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent | , who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
Henri Christophe | ... ected members of Dessalines' administration, including Alexandre Pétion and | , began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated ... |
Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
Muhammad | ... om the "Lauhe Mahfooz" (on 7th heaven) to 1st heaven to the Islamic prophet | , the month of Ramadan was in existence before Isla |
Pol Pot | ... following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( | after 1976) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its app ... |
Francis I | ... the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor Charles V) and by those of | , King of France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... s preceded by his father Menahem's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to | , as is recorded in (where Pul = Tiglath-Pileser) and also in Tiglath-Pile ... |
Pol Pot | ... ng's Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after | and the Khmer Rouge |
John the Fearless | ... arts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of | , was made bishop. However what looked like an impending annexation of Cam ... |
Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
Vaišvilkas | ... kavysk, and the Principality of Polotsk. In about 1239 he appointed his son | to govern these areas, then known as Black Ruthenia. In 1248, he sent his ... |
Emperor Wilhelm II | ... ied propaganda referred to Germans as the "Huns", based on a 1900 speech by | praising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of W ... |
William II of the Netherlands | ... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King | and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia |
Juliana of the Netherlands | ... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen | and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ... |
Mattathias | 1. | , 170–167 BC |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
Adad-nirari III | Shalmaneser IV was king of Assyria (783 - 773 BC). He succeeded his father | , and was succeeded by his brother Ashur-dan III. Very little information ... |
Antiochus IV Epiphanes | ... a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of | and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne. Along with his sister Laod ... |
Cleopatra Thea | ... zed by the Roman Senate, Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt and others. He married | , a daughter of the Ptolemaic dynasty. At first unsuccessful, Alexander fi ... |
Klement Gottwald | ... . The Party won the most votes in free elections but not a simple majority. | , the communist leader, became Prime Minister of a coalition government. I ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... d was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was dissolved by King | in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this time, only 12 monks were livi ... |
Thutmose II | ... dom of Egypt that has striking parallels to the Pekah/Menahem rivalry. When | died, the intended heir was his son Thutmose III, who was still a boy. How ... |
Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
Helgi Hundingsbani | ... seen as a whole in the Edda, but they consist of three layers, the story of | , the story of the Nibelungs and the story of Jörmunrekkr, king of the Got ... |
Dionysius the Younger | |width=25% align=center|Succeeded by: | |
Ahmad Shah Durrani | When the Durrani Afghan Empire was created by | in 1747, his military was involved in several wars with Hindustan and Pers ... |
Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
Blanche of Anjou | ... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and | . His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ... |
Philip IV of France | ... , but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of King | to plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence ... |
Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
Edward VI | ... Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young | . Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 (part of the " ... |
Valentinian I | ... igh in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear before Emperor | at Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary was mortified to hear the ... |
Polynices | ... the Seven against Thebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, | , Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of ... |
Rurik | ... along coastlines and along the major river valleys of north-western Europe. | also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or in ... |
Pepin II of Aquitaine | ... enay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841, when, in spite of his and his allied nephew | 's personal gallantry, Lothair was defeated and fled to Aachen. With fresh ... |
Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... ted by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to | , then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Fe ... |
Thrasybulus | |width=25% align=center|Preceded by: democracy position previously held by | in 465 B |
King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
Oenomaus | ... vine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of | ), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also ... |
Grand Duke Constantine | ... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard | ;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ... |
Qin Shi Huang | ... from rice in the 1st century CE. This date could be revised if the tomb of | is excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concern ... |
Augustus | ... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor | was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ... |
Prusias II | ... urth in descent from Nicomedes I. Nicomedes II was the son and successor of | and Apame IV. His parents were related, as they were uncle and niece, as w ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... st documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to the Persian King | (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 ... |
Akbar | ... ngir did not seem to have anything against Christianity. He wrote fondly of | 's reign, when "Sunnis and Shias met in one mosque, and Franks and Jews in ... |
Edward I of England | ... ather Eric who raised the question again. Eric sent official ambassadors to | , then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as "Quee ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... his from the Assyrian side, Stanley Rosenbaum maintains that the records of | demonstrate that the Assyrian king distinguished between two kingdoms in t ... |
Aegeus | ... is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous | in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) me ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... ter Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of | |
Fëanorian | ... Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Both Fingolfin, High-king of the Noldor, and | Noldor led by Maedhros had maintained camps of cavalry on Ard-galen as a f ... |
Maximilian I of Bavaria | ... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, King | introduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ... |
King Arthur | ... he ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among them | and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake. At Cadbu ... |
Nicomedes I | ... s the king of Bithynia from 149 to c. 127 BC. He was fourth in descent from | . Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and Apame IV. His p ... |
Sancho II of Portugal | ... le to stem the rising flood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by | , Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The ... |
Maximilian I | ... s II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of | , as stipulated by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne w ... |
Cyaxares | ... d Babylonians. On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against | , king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities ... |
Cædwalla of Wessex | ... of Northumbria was converted in the mid 620s. However, later kings, such as | , who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession |
Catherine Parr | ... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, | . In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ... |
Edward III | ... he became dissatisfied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of | , through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1s ... |
Darius I of Persia | ... ian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor | (521 BC). Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal sy ... |
Alfonso IX of León | ... lood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, | , Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years sa ... |
Maximilian | ... ath Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When | I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg v ... |
Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
Aurelius Severus | ... his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aurelia Aquensis, in honour of | , during whose reign Baden would seem to have been well known. Fragments o ... |
Antiochus IV Epiphanes | After the death of | , the Seleucid Empire became increasingly unstable. Frequent civil wars ma ... |
Lorenzo de' Medici | ... when he returned to settle for a time in Florence in November 1484 and met | and Marsilio Ficino, on the astrologically auspicious day Ficino had chose ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... king and precedent-setting case quotes extensively from an address given by | to medical professionals on the matter of preservation of life |
Francis II | ... ch, he died in March 1792. The French declared war on his inexperienced son | a month later |
Elisabeth of Valois | ... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess, | . The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ... |
Henry Tudor | ... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of | (later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... rtner. When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders, | (r. 141–87 BCE) launched several military campaigns against them. The ulti ... |
Philip V of Spain | ... to defend from foreign aggression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised | 's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of T ... |
Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
Louis the Pious | ... texts to write his Life. The style is similar to that of two biographies of | : Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually ... |
Maximilian I | ... hemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor | in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal gua ... |
Polynices | ... es. During the time he reigned there it happened that Tydeus of Calydon and | of Thebes, both fugitives from their native countries, met at Argos near t ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... Khmer Rouge", French for "Red Khmer," was coined by Cambodian head of state | and was later adopted by English speakers. It was used to refer to a succe ... |
Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
Henry III of England | ... . His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of | , their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driv ... |
Charles V | ... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517, | authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ... |
Enmerkar | ... ta has natural resources (i.e. gold, silver, lapis lazuli) that Uruk needs. | , king in Uruk, comes to Inanna requesting that a temple be built in Uruk ... |
Nicomedes III | ... assisted them against Eumenes III of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son | |
Muhammad | ... acob is also important as his life drew numerous parallels with the life of | . Jacob suffered great loss repeatedly, as did Muhammad in the Year of Sor ... |
Marie Louise | ... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess | of Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ... |
Emperor Fei of Chen | ... of Emperor Wen, his son, the weak-willed Chen Bozong, took power and became | . His uncle, Chen Xu, after essentially controlling the country through hi ... |
Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
Köten | ... th century. Cumans were granted asylum and settled in Hungary in 1239 under | Khan. Komondor remains have been found in Cuman gravesites |
Ghanima | ... urner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and | . Paul disappears into the desert, in accordance with Fremen custom for th ... |
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Demetrius I Soter | ... young son, Antiochus V Eupator, was first overthrown by Seleucus IV's son, | in 161 BC. Demetrius I attempted to restore Seleucid power in Judea partic ... |
Hammurabi | ... laim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to | (1700 BC) and Sargon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary missi ... |
Henry IV of France | Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of | (1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a ... |
Hu Jintao | ... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President | |
Uncle Claudius | ... film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by Liev Schreiber, | by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
Cynegils of Wessex | ... ghout his life. Records survive of the baptism of other kings at this time— | was baptized in about 640, for example, and Edwin of Northumbria was conve ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002, | canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life. |
Queen Mary I | ... , Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of | , Christ Church became a centre of Catholic support, and Harrison converte ... |
Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | ... dent of France at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after | and Jean Casimir-Perier. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
Sher Ali | ... c mission to Kabul in 1878, Britain demanded that the ruler of Afghanistan, | , accept a British diplomatic mission. The mission was turned back, and in ... |
Louis Bonaparte | ... unst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king | , brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as ... |
Edward II of England | ... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future | , or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ... |
Albert of Mecklenburg's | ... arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King | coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus Birgersson's coat of arms of 1275, an ... |
Marie de' Medici | ... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and | (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ... |
Astyages | ... eded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of | , King of Media |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... his father Charles Albert aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of | , Charles Albert rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the G ... |
Louis William | ... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave | , popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705 |
Hatshepsut | ... . However, some time not long after the death of her husband (Thutmose II), | assumed the royal regalia and the title of pharaoh, reigning for 21 years. ... |
James I | ... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her son | when he became King of England |
Ho Chi Minh | ... litical lyrics "I'm goin' to Paris to stop this war" and "I had a chat with | " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace ... |
Pope Benedict | ====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States, | admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ... |
King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future | . Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights |
Gilgamesh | ... ures, Eastern and Western, spanning all the way back to the first god king, | |
Thoas | ## | ## Peparethu |
Charles Knutsson | ... rding to this theory, the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King | , who also introduced the Coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coa ... |
Cadmus | ... o him the twins Phrixus and Helle. He subsequently married Ino, daughter of | , with whom, he had two children: Learches and |
Alcetas of Epirus | In 385 BC, | was a refugee in Dionysus' court. Dionysus wanted a friendly monarch in Ep ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and | |
Attalus II Philadelphus | Supported by | , king of Pergamon, he was completely successful, and ordered his father t ... |
Mount Cithaeron | It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on | , and that he was given a baby, which the childless Polybus then adopted. ... |
Commodus | ... ied in the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh. Accounts of the cruelty of the emperor | describes his amusing himself by enacting Mithriac initiation ordeals in h ... |
Louis XIV | ... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of | (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ... |
Creon | After the battle, | , king of Thebes, ordered that none of the fallen enemies were to be given ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final approval in 1950 by | . In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it i ... |
Oedipus | ... sent forms). Orion's blinding is therefore parallel to that of Aegypius and | |
Pope John Paul II | ... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by | before the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ... |
Emperor Xuan of Chen | ... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as | . At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... he calendar year was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to | . Varro states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), ... |
Croesus | He was succeeded by his son | . His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Med ... |
Philippa of Lancaster | On 11 February 1387, John I married | , daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolida ... |
Princess Alice of Battenberg | ... ly son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and | . Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophi ... |
Alexander Balas | ... store Seleucid power in Judea particularly, but was overthrown in 150 BC by | — an impostor who (with Egyptian backing) claimed to be the son of Epiphan ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | In 1543 Cambrai was conquered by | , and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ... |
Augustus | ... description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar and during | tenure, is as follows |
Elisa Baciocchi | ... nnexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister, | . Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi court, while giving privat ... |
Khosrau II | ... of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of | (590–628). The xvatāynamāk contained historical information on the later S ... |
Magneto's | ... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including | Acolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ... |
King Talal | ... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father | . The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ... |
Ardashir I | ... s originally written during the late Sassanid era, and gave accounts of how | came to power which, because of its historical proximity, is thought to be ... |
Hadingus | ... what has often been interpreted as a trip to Hel. While having dinner, King | is visited by a woman bearing stalks of hemlock who asks him if he knows w ... |
Aeëtes | ... fter her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King | took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope ... |
Eric the Holy | According to the mythology, the 12th century Swedish king | saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swe ... |
Muhammad | ... which the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet, | |
Sauron | The eagle who brings the news of | 's defeat to Minas Tirith refers to the city as the Tower of Anor. The eag ... |
Demetrius II Nicator | ... er Balas reigned until 145 BC, when he was overthrown by Demetrius I's son, | . Demetrius II proved unable to control the whole of the kingdom, however. ... |
Anacaona | ... rotectorate, and Bohechio, childless at death, was succeeded by his sister, | , wife of the cacique Caonabo. Anacaona tried to maintain cordial relation ... |
Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
King George III's | ... e of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, | queen |
Joachim Murat | ... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law | . As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ... |
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands | ... has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and | , born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the ... |
Agesilaus | ... 15,000 Molossians, and Alcetas regained his throne. Sparta intervened under | , however, and with aid from Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Molossians thems ... |
Amphiaraus | ... hebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, Polynices, Tydeus, | , Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of Tydeus and Polynices ... |
Henry the Navigator | ... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince | , the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ... |
Thutmose III | ... Pekah/Menahem rivalry. When Thutmose II died, the intended heir was his son | , who was still a boy. However, some time not long after the death of her ... |
Konrad I of Masovia | Upon the invitation of Duke | , the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and ... |
Peleus | Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and | , the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the han ... |
Dionysius the Younger | ... to others, he was poisoned by his physicians at the instigation of his son, | who succeeded him as ruler of Syracuse. His life was written by Philistus, ... |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... d was added in the following century, possibly by the soldier and statesman | . A long held tradition of speaking from the elevated speakers' Rostra—ori ... |
Henry Tudor | ... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of | and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ... |
Henry III of France | ... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, | (1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ... |
Magnus Birgersson's | ... flag. Blue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since king | royal coat of arms of 1275 |
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau | He has two younger brothers: | , born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. H ... |
Magneto | The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant | , after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ... |
Liliuokalani | ... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing of | was to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ... |
Pharaoh | ... d courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where | s used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the ... |
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... ndôme and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were | and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de' Medici, his maternal ... |
Mongkut | ... i Armed Forces came into existence as permanent force at the behest of King | , who needed a European trained military force in order to thwart any west ... |
Stefan Nemanja | The medieval Serbian state is formed by | and continued by the Nemanjić dynasty. By the end of the century, both the ... |
Achilles | ... humans whom they had bitten. Homer, in the Iliad, describes the approach of | toward Troy in these words |
Emperor Muzong of Liao | ... inese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not clear whether | really played with domino cards as early as 969, though. Legend dates the ... |
Theodoric | Odoacer's rule came to an end when the Ostrogoths, under the leadership of | , conquered Italy. This led to the Gothic War against the armies of Byzant ... |
William III of England | ... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that King | granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ... |
Polybus | ... pherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby, which the childless | then adopted. The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from ... |
Humaira Begum | He married | (1918–2002) on 7 November 1931 and had six sons and two daughters |
Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou | ... ng Jian defeated his rival General Weichi Jiong, he usurped the throne from | and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself Emperor Wen of Sui. He p ... |
King Charles I | ... o discovers that she is Enrichetta (Henrietta Maria), widow of the executed | . Elvira appears singing a joyful polonaise ("Son vergin vezzosa"), but dr ... |
Aurelian | ... enerable day of the sun, referencing the esoteric eastern sun-worship which | had helped introduce, and his coinage still carried the symbols of the sun ... |
Bona Sforza | ... ged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the death of | , Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and i ... |
Henry VII | ... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party. | (Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ... |
Herod the Great | ... indeed as late as the First Jewish–Roman War was still considered Idumean. | built the wall which still surrounds the Cave of the Patriarchs. During th ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... r husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother | . These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinan ... |
Septimius Severus | ... s Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt), was made a colonia by | in 193, having been part of the territory of Berytus on the Phoenician coa ... |
Hu Jintao | ... development gap between urban and rural areas. As a result, under President | and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC government initiated policies to address t ... |
Liudolf | ... e was Count Wichmann, mentioned as a Billung in 811. Oda, the wife of Count | , oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was also a Billung |
Kublai Khan | ... urney to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from | 's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return. The Venice Library was lost ... |
Rugila | The death of | (also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, A ... |
Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... e sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, | declared the , giving free passage to Huguenot refugees, and tax-free stat ... |
Emperor An of Jin | ... ause he believed in a prophecy saying there would be one more emperor after | , he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement, Emp ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | ... en und etliche umbliegende lender (Map of Prussia and Neighboring Lands) to | , who had been trying to compute the exact time of sunrise. Rheticus made ... |
Philip II | In 1561, King | made Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ... |
Septimius Severus | ... the writings of the ancients. The former is last mentioned in the reign of | (circa 200 AD) |
Amélie of Leuchtenberg | ... diately went to the Janelas Verdes palace, where he met with his stepmother | . The two had not seen each other in forty years, and the meeting was emot ... |
Henry II | ... ley. His efficiency in those posts led to Theobald recommending him to King | for the vacant post of Lord Chancellor, to which Becket was appointed in J ... |
Manuel I Komnenos | Bari was occupied by | between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground; Frede ... |
Menahem | ... on is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with | being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC |
Gediminids | ... n; no historic records note any connections between his descendants and the | dynasty that ruled Lithuania and Poland until 1572. A 17th-century rector ... |
Charles the Bald | ... lemagne’s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and | declared their fiefs to be hereditary. The period of chaos in the 9th and ... |
Muhammad | ... , it is, in fact from the bequest of [the sahaba (companion) of the prophet | Tamim-al Dari and others.... The Amir of Khurasan...has assigned to this c ... |
Catherine Howard | ... belonging to Catherine Parr and the cameo beads appear to have belonged to | , from whom they would have passed to her successor as queen |
Peter II of Aragon | In 1213, forces led by King | , came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ... |
John II of Portugal | ... pe the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed (by King | ) the Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because it represented the ... |
Beatrice of Savoy | ... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and | |
Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... hn in the National Portrait Gallery was for many years thought to represent | . The painting has recently been re-identified as Catherine Parr, with who ... |
Vytautas the Great | ... assing references from Grand Duke Gediminas and was not mentioned at all by | . His known family relations end with his children; no historic records no ... |
Eumenes III | ... Nicomedes adhered steadily to the Roman alliance, and assisted them against | of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son Nicomedes III |
Allectus | ... ximian's subordinate, Constantius, campaigned against Carausius' successor, | , while Maximian held the Rhine frontier. The rebel leader was ousted in 2 ... |
Duke Magnus | The house became extinct when | died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ... |
Hyrcanus II | ... asmonean line, thought a new era of independence had come. When Phasael and | set out on an embassy to the Parthians, the Parthians instead captured the ... |
Septimius Severus | ... gest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of | (193-211 CE), whose coins first show the two temples. In commemoration, no ... |
Theodosius II | ... thers' accession, the Hun tribes were bargaining with Eastern Roman Emperor | 's envoys for the return of several s (possibly Hunnic nobles who disagree ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with | , this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ... |
Franz Joseph | ... dinand I were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew | . Separatist tendencies (especially in Lombardy and Hungary) were suppress ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and | took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ... |
Hummay | ... African traders, Berbers and Arabs, brought the new religion. Towards 1068, | , a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discard ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Eidsvoll Verk was opened to smelt iron ore by King | in 1624, relying on the excellent water power from the Andelva river. In 1 ... |
Allectus | Carausius was assassinated and replaced by his treasurer, | . Constantius marched up the coast to the Rhine and Scheldt estuaries wher ... |
Philip V | ... the region was not solved despite the several attempts. During the reign of | , the intendencia was created as a policial and administrative division. N ... |
Prince William | ... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old | , later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ... |
Bleda | ... own as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, Attila and | (Buda), in control of the united Hun tribes. At the time of two brothers' ... |
Maximian | ... he Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of | , AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanc ... |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
Franz Ferdinand | ... rife increased during the decades until 1914. The assassination of Archduke | , who was the presumed heir of Franz Joseph as Emperor, in Sarajevo by a S ... |
Hoshea | ... ian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and | being king from 732 BC |
Marie de' Medici | ... age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother, | , acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen. Marie maintain ... |
Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan | ... Persian king Khosrau I, sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped | to drive the Ethiopian Aksumites out of Yemen. Southern Arabia became a Pe ... |
Emperor Gaozu of Han | ... 280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as | . It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former re ... |
Charles the First | ... its buildings were commandeered by the Royalists and used to house many of | 's court when Oxford was used as the Royalists' capital. This included the ... |
Hyrcanus II | ... us IV and Alexander, were in their adulthood also executed by their father. | had been held by the Parthians since 40 BCE. For four years, until 36 BCE, ... |
Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
Sauron | ... Necromancer was a pseudonym used by Tolkien in The Hobbit for the character | . The song departs from the story of the book as Part III sees the return ... |
Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
Alfonso XI of Castile | ... er James, who had refused to consummate the marriage. She was the sister of | . Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last y ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself | . He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ... |
Cnut the Great | ... York. The Viking presence continued throughout the reign of the Danish King | (1016–1035), after which a series of inheritance arguments weakened power ... |
Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
Teresa d'Entença | By | |
Grand Prince of the Hungarians | ... 38, Esztergom or Székesfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary), born as Vajk, was the | (997–1000) and the first (1000–1038) |
Witch-king | ... terial derived from them) name the eight other than Khamûl; Er-Murazor (the | , of Númenórean race), Dwar of Waw, Ji Indur Dawndeath, Akhorahil (Númenór ... |
Gian Galeazzo Sforza | Isabella di Aragona, princess of Naples and widow of the Duke of Milan | , enlarged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the ... |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... English Queen mother Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband | from supporting the English side. Pierre Mauclerc did support the English ... |
Valentinian I | ... in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor | . Ambrose never married |
Philip the Arab | ... entury BCE (reign of Augustus) and over a period of two centuries (reign of | ), the Romans had built a temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three te ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by | to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ... |
Titus | ... ys suggested that he based his narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by | on the account given by Tacitus in his Histories, a portion of which has b ... |
Æthelbald of Mercia | ... t surviving documented allusion to Yeading dates from 757 AD, in which year | made a land grant which mentioned Geddinges (Yeading) and Fiscesburne (Cra ... |
Muhammad | Islam came to Yemen around 630, during the Islamic prophet | 's lifetime. At that time the Persian governor Badhan was ruling. Thereaft ... |
Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
Lulach | ... y Duncan's son Malcolm. The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson | , Malcolm ascended the throne as Malcolm III |
Carausius | The man he appointed to police the Channel shores, | , rebelled in 286, causing the secession of Britain and northwestern Gaul. ... |
Sauron | ... were also created for the Ents, but, in the Second Age, were driven out by | |
Margaret of Provence | ... e same year, he was married, and Blanche became Queen mother. Louis married | , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, an ... |
Ahaz | When Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack | , the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Ass ... |
Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
Prince Edward | ... Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, | , was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Keni ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, | , and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries ... |
Valentinian II | ... stern Emperor Gratian held orthodox belief in the Nicene creed, the younger | , who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. Ambr ... |
Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy | ... thune, duc de Sully, who was unpopular in the country. She mainly relied on | , Noël Brûlart de Sillery, and Pierre Jeannin. Marie pursued a moderate po ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
Emperor Ming of Han | ... an and was first mentioned in 65 CE. Liu Ying (d. 71 CE), a half-brother to | (r. 57–75 CE), was one of its earliest Chinese adherents, although Chinese ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... in as Charles III following the death of its ruler, and Charles's relative, | , in 1700. He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by wh ... |
Umar | ... ding villages to be a part of al-Dari's domain; this was implemented during | 's reign as caliph. According to the arrangement, al-Dari and his descenda ... |
Alexander the Great | ... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of | 's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ... |
Suleiman the Magnificent | ... Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan | in 1538. Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus' ... |
Ali ibn Yusuf | ... he went to Marrakesh, where he successfully tracked down the Almoravid emir | at a local mosque, and challenged the emir, and the leading scholars of th ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ith Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah ... |
Jane Seymour | ... . Coincidentally, this was also the illness that killed Henry's third wife, | . It was not uncommon, due to the lack of hygiene around childbirth. Never ... |
Diocletian | In 297, as Emperor | reformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was ... |
King Haakon | ... Norwegian troops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's | , Crown Prince, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue t ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married | , by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ... |
Theodosius I | ... eed. Ambrose did not sway the young prince's position. In the East, Emperor | likewise professed the Nicene creed; but there were many adherents of Aria ... |
Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst | Catherine's father | belonged to the ruling family of Anhalt, but held the rank of a Prussian g ... |
Philip IV of France | ... n Friday 13 October 1307 the Knights Templar were ordered to be arrested by | . It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemas ... |
Chen Shubao | ... th to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just died and his son incompetent son | (Houzhu of Chen) took power. He was licentious and wasteful, resulting in ... |
Princess Margriet | ... lhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchild | on 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returni ... |
Augustus | ... r divination. Starting in the last quarter of the 1st century BCE (reign of | ) and over a period of two centuries (reign of Philip the Arab), the Roman ... |
Odin | ... n the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and | , while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In Snorri Sturluso ... |
Yu the Great | ... of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. | , the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the ki ... |
Traidenis | ... ed during the next seven years. Stability did not return until the reign of | , designated Grand Duke ca. 1270 |
Albert Frederick | On 19 July 1569, when | rendered King Sigismund II homage and was in return enfeoffed as Duke of P ... |
Henry VIII | ... yed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King | . The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of h ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on in a manner and to a degree appropriate to their present divided state." | , who convoked the Council that brought this change of emphasis about, sai ... |
Queen Anne | ... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of | , in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ... |
Charles Martel | ... Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord | , which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, ... |
Albert Frederick | When Albert died in 1568, his teenage son (exact age is unknown) | inherited the duchy. Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, who had co ... |
Kenneth MacAlpin | ... eir name to Scotland), of the Irish petty kingdom of Dál Riata in the west. | is traditionally viewed as the first king of a united Scotland (known as S ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself | , he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ... |
Princess Margaret of Prussia | ... e up her faith to become Russian Orthodox. The tsar then sent emissaries to | , daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of German Emperor Wi ... |
Maxentius | In late 306, Maximian took the title of Augustus again and aided his son | ' rebellion in Italy. In April 307, he attempted to depose his son, but fa ... |
Rinaldo d'Este | ... rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke | , the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747 |
Trajan | ... when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site. | 's biographer records that the emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan ... |
Henry | ... landowners, including churches and bishoprics. King Henry even sent his son | to live in Becket's household, it being the custom then for noble children ... |
William IV | ... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence under | between 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ... |
Juliana | ... gn of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter | , because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two regenc ... |
Antiochus IV Epiphanes | ... imately assassinated by his minister Heliodorus. Seleucus' younger brother, | , now seized the throne. He attempted to restore Seleucid power and presti ... |
Jiang Zemin | President | and Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in ... |
Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as | , King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia (Charles III), Archduk ... |
Sarolt | ... n of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary; his mother was | , daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nobleman who had been bapt ... |
Edward IV of England | ... prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of | who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suff ... |
King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
Fidel Castro | ... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway, | in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor | |
Offa of Mercia | ... down in Wulfhere's reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of | , or Edwin or Oswiu of Northumbria |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... l, living with his maternal grandmother at Kensington Palace and his uncle, | , at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. In the next three years, his four si ... |
Crown Prince | ... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon, | , and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ... |
Ashurbanipal | ... d Nineveh. Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of | 's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the Museum a f ... |
Gediminas | ... is support as lukewarm. He received only passing references from Grand Duke | and was not mentioned at all by Vytautas the Great. His known family relat ... |
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | In February 1972, the Heir Apparent, Sheikh | , deposed his cousin, Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, and assumed power. Key membe ... |
Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) | ... nly at Princess Alix, safe in the knowledge that Alexander III and his wife | , both vigorously anti-German, had no intention of permitting a match with ... |
Seleucus IV Philopator | The reign of his son and successor | (187-175 BC) was largely spent in attempts to pay the large indemnity, and ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ncil's decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio of 21 November 1964, and | 's encyclical, Ut Unum Sint of 25 May 1995 |
Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
Abd al-Mu'min | ... disciples - notably, al-Bashir (who would become his chief strategist) and | (a Zenata Berber, who would later become his successor) |
Roger II of Sicily | ... moald increased the cult of St Nicholas in his city. He later did homage to | , but rebelled and was defeated in 1132 |
Schoeneus | ... lment of the oracle, settled there and married a third wife, Themisto (son: | ). The spot was afterwards called the Athamanian plain. When Athamas retur ... |
Saladin | ... ulayhi between 1047-1063. Turan-Shah annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire of | in 1173. The Rasulid dynasty ruled Yemen, with Zabid as its capital, from ... |
Emperor Gong of Jin | ... f Jin, he deposed Emperor An, and soon afterwards Emperor An's replacement, | in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself Emp ... |
Géza of Hungary | He was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was Grand Prince | ; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nob ... |
William II | ... ds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King | . The village is not actually in Glencoe but occupies an area known as Car ... |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ... gainst the Roman Catholic rule of the Teutonic Knights, whose Grand Master, | , a member of a cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, lacked the mili ... |
Bagsecg | ... 0 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led by a Viking leader called | and his Five Earls. Aided by the Great Heathen Army (which had already ove ... |
Telephus | ... left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King | . In the resulting battle, Achilles gave Telephus a wound that would not h ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... rgaret of Austria. The succession thereby passed to Queen Isabella and King | . She died in 1498, while giving birth to a son, the Infante Miguel, to wh ... |
Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
Pol Pot | ... l from 1968 until 1975, and established the regime of Democratic Kampuchea. | , who rose to the leadership of the communist movement in the 1960s, was b ... |
Julian | ... ave reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor | |
Joséphine | ... anyone about the upcoming battle because he did not want to disturb Empress | . According to Frederick C. Schneid, the main concern of Napoleon was not ... |
Charlemagne | ... ce as a mounted warrior. Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor | , from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its ... |
Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ed with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dread" of Rezin and Pekah, "Son o ... |
Carus | ... arinus (; died 285), was Roman Emperor 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor | , he was appointed Caesar and co-emperor of the western portion of the emp ... |
Genghis Khan | ... eparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol Emperors, starting with | who banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way, ... |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
Ahaz | ... 2 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) | appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dr ... |
Roman Emperor | Carinus (; died 285), was | 282 to 285. The elder son of emperor Carus, he was appointed Caesar and co ... |
Erechtheus | ... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of | /Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ... |
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse | ... em, Philip moved to Gordonstoun. In 1937, his sister Cecilie, her husband ( | ), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in an air crash at ... |
William III | Henley suffered from both parties in the Civil War. | on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... elder half-sister Mary to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating | as his heiress. Jane's reign however lasted only nine days; with tremendou ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Henry VIII | ... y took on powerful positions in government. An example of this was found in | 's England where his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. An even more prom ... |
Lady Jane Grey | In early 1548, Catherine invited Lady Elizabeth and her cousin, | to stay in the couple's household at Sudeley. The Dowager Queen promised t ... |
Emperor Yang of Sui | ... ty. In 588 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui sent his son Yang Guang (who would become | ) to finally vanquish the Chen dynasty. Chen Shubao relied on the natural ... |
Isabel II | ... Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of | , the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central Un ... |
Andrew I | ... ed for the crown. Nine years of instability followed until Stephen's cousin | was crowned King of Hungary in 1047 to re-establish the Árpád dynasty. Hun ... |
Philip V of Macedon | ... situation now looked propitious for another western campaign. Antiochus and | then made a pact to divide the Ptolemaic possessions outside of Egypt, and ... |
Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom | ... e the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and Tsarevna, HRH | , the Duchess of Cambridge, and HRH Princess Anna of Prussia. Her family n ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Earl of Richmond | The second creation was on 13 November 1362, for | , who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edwar ... |
Christian V of Denmark | ... ll preserved today. It was renamed Christiansfjell Fortress in 1685 by King | during his visit to Hammersberg Skanse on June 14. Although the fortress w ... |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... or his own scribes, but by the notaries of his half-brother, the petty king | , whose notaries were also calling Ferdinand's predecessor as king of León ... |
Henry VIII | ... t and New Street. To the west it included Bell Street and the Market Place. | , having granted the use of the titles "mayor" and "burgess", the town was ... |
Athelstan | ... mous author of the earliest Life places Dunstan's birth during the reign of | , while Osbern fixed it at "the first year of the reign of King Æthelstan" ... |
David | ... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero | , a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ... |
Gratian | ... atiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed upon | to call a general council from all parts of the empire. This request appea ... |
Henry VIII | ... me the Herbert family became the most powerful family in the area. In 1538, | closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, the remains of wh ... |
Titus | ... tely fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under Vespasian and | besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temple (in the ... |
Dimitris Christofias | ... arliament in the general election on 27 September 2009. Communist candidate | won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative ri ... |
Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei | Widespread social and cultural transformation in northern China came with | (reigned 471–499 AD), whose father was a Xianbei, but whose mother was Chi ... |
Grand Duke's | ... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent | daughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine |
Constantine I | ... ylvester II, alluding to Pope Sylvester I (314–335), the advisor to Emperor | (324–337). Soon after he was elected Pope, Sylvester II confirmed the posi ... |
Vespasian | ... ut they ultimately fell to the sustained might of Rome. Roman legions under | and Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and burned Herod's Temp ... |
Manwë | ... Power’, singular 'Vala'), of which there are fourteen principal characters: | , Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos, Lórien, Tulkas, Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Estë, ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing | 's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ... |
Henry the Lion | ... an be found in the town of Rerik (which still bears a Slavic name). In 1160 | conquered the region; afterwards German monks, peasants and traders arrive ... |
Diocletian | ... two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. The Emperor | (r. 284-305) was the last of the great builders of Rome's city infrastruct ... |
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
Alfonso | ... rdinand I in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, | . The title is currently carried by Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the ... |
Ashur-uballit II | ... ed around a general holding out at Harran, who had taken the throne name of | . Necho attempted to assist this remnant immediately upon his coronation, ... |
Ifriqiya | ... ter his return to the Maghreb c.1117, Ibn Tumart spent some time in various | n cities, preaching and agitating, heading riotous attacks on wine-shops a ... |
John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
Hezekiah | ... is recorded in the Immanuel prophecy in where the birth of a son (possibly | ) is a sign of the defeat of both kings by the King of Assyria before the ... |
Diocletian | ... areer have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent, | |
Henry II | ... was a busy port in the Middle Ages, and was declared a Staple port in 1327. | travelled through Cardiff on his journey to Ireland and had a premonition ... |
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | She also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to | , a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a sup ... |
Cleon | ... a very early instance of this, Aristophanes was persecuted by the demagogue | |
Robert of Courtenay | ... o fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under | . With French forces defeated at Lincoln in May 1217 and then routed on th ... |
Gaius Caesar | The heir of Augustus, | , was killed there in 4 AD |
Henry V of England | ... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of | ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ... |
Galerius | ... At the Council of Carnuntum in November 308, Diocletian and his successor, | , forced Maximian to renounce his imperial claim again. In early 310, Maxi ... |
Henry the Lion | ... s desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to | , duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Proud. In return, Austria was elevat ... |
Conrad II | ... t Hungary, but Stephen's troops forced them to retreat. Stephen and Emperor | concluded peace negotiations in 1031, and the territories between the Leit ... |
Ferdinand I | ... of Aragon gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King | in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, Alfonso. ... |
Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster | The first creation was on 6 March 1351, for | , a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Ea ... |
Constantine II | King | 's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ... |
Augustus | The heir of | , Gaius Caesar, was killed there in 4 AD |
Emperor Shao of Liu Song | After the death of Emperor Wu, his son | ruled briefly before being judged incompetent and killed by government off ... |
Shah of Iran | ... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed | , who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ... |
Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine | ... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter, | |
King Oscar II | The history of these arms is quite curious. When on 18 July 1891 | visited the city, a menu had to be printed. It was printed with a coat of ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... . Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor | . Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern co ... |
Pedro II | ... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor | , so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ... |
Septimius Severus | ... It was dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperor | and his two sons, and is one of the most visible landmarks there today. Th ... |
Aurelian | ... ntier. Maximian joined the army, serving with Diocletian under the emperors | (r. 270–275) and Probus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Meso ... |
Frederick the Great | ... for promotion to Major. Blücher sent in a rude letter of resignation, which | granted in 1773: Der Rittmeister von Blücher kann sich zum Teufel scheren ... |
Léopold Clément of Lorraine | ... e was raised early in her childhood. She was first engaged to be married to | , who was supposed to come to Vienna and meet Maria Theresa in 1723. Inste ... |
Khosrau I | The Persian king | , sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan t ... |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... to soldiers she spotted on the roads. In 1942, her youngest surviving son, | , was killed in an air crash while on active service. Queen Mary finally r ... |
Sophie of Württemberg | King William III had three sons with his first wife, | . However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ... |
Numerian | ... death of Carus, the army in the East demanded to be led back to Europe, and | , the younger son of Carus, was forced to comply. During a halt at Chalced ... |
Don Carlos | ... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples to | of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma |
Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
Conradin | ... owerful prince in southern Germany. He served as the guardian of his nephew | of Hohenstaufen, and after Conradin's execution in Italy in 1268, Louis an ... |
Agrippa I | The later Herodian rulers | and Agrippa II both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristob ... |
Nicholas I of Russia | ... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor | on the Neva River |
Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford | ... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son, | . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ... |
Elizabeth I | ... 573, it was made a head port for collection of customs duties, and in 1581, | granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historian George Ow ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
Henry | ... uring the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, | , backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenil ... |
Prince Juan Carlos | In 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir, | , which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ... |
Alexander the Great | ... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered by | and after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... . The Lebor Gabála synchronises Conn's reign with that of the Roman emperor | (161-180). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn date ... |
Kamakura shogunate | ... cident, an unsuccessful attempt by Emperor Go-Toba to seize real power, the | completely excluded those of the imperial family descended from Emperor Go ... |
Vespasian | ... Claudius annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of | , it was united with Pamphylia as a Roman province |
Elizabeth of York | ... I, Henry Tudor neutralised the remaining Yorkist forces, partly by marrying | , a Yorkist heir. Through skill and ability, Henry re-established absolute ... |
Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Claudius | In 43 AD, the emperor | annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of Vespasi ... |
Kim Jong-il | In response to the summit between | and Kim Dae-jung in 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to r ... |
Henry IV of France | The Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by | , granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) su ... |
Semiramis | ... ilometre tunnel beneath the river Euphrates at Babylon in the time of Queen | (ca. 800 B.C.) was reportedly constructed of burnt bricks covered with bit ... |
Merewalh | ... Æthelred, and two sisters, Cyneburh and Cyneswith; it is also possible that | , king of the Magonsæte, was Wulfhere's brother. He married Eormenhild of ... |
Edward I | ... ck to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to | , first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and establi ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance, | leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (wh ... |
Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
Richard II | ... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from | , ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ... |
Sauron | ... R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to | 's power and attained near-immortality as wraiths, servants bound to the p ... |
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands | ... ed two of them and only the childless Prince Alexander and the King's uncle | were alive, so under the Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in plac ... |
Louis XVI | ... igning of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by | 102 years later, on 7 November 1787. This edict was enacted by parlement t ... |
Murat's | ... s to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the Allied Army to accept | ceasefire proposal so that the allied army could have more time to retreat ... |
Emperor Go-Toba | ... a shogunate completely excluded those of the imperial family descended from | from the Chrysanthemum throne, thus forcing Emperor Chūkyō to abdicate. Af ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled and was promulgated by | on November 21, 1964. The title in Latin means "Restoration of Unity" and ... |
Bruno the Great | In 959 the Lotharingian duke | divided the duchy between Lotharingia superior (Upper Lorraine) and Lothar ... |
Henry VII of England | ... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests of | but were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ... |
Henry III | ... dation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to | and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic ... |
Richard I | Henry's successor, | , paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ... |
Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
Prince Shōtoku | Spying in Japan dates as far back as | (572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ... |
Pallava | ... he earliest surviving manuscript in Malay is the Tanjong Tanah Law in post- | characters. This 14th century pre-Islamic legal text produced in the Adity ... |
Shapur I | ... r Satiran), probably the Parthian governor of Bahrain. He appointed his son | as governor of Bahrain. Shapur constructed a new city there and named it B ... |
Conaire Cóem | ... riors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara. His son-in-law | succeeded him as High King, and Conn's son Art would later succeed him. Th ... |
Henry II | ... rs of the Anarchy (1135–54), delayed any further development of the castle. | succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of ... |
Henry VI | ... own of Henley. The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of | |
Emperor of Austria | ... an admirer of German Emperor Wilhelm II (his second cousin once removed) or | Franz Josef I whom he described as "that idiot, that old dotard of a Franc ... |
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | ... ime period, Wilhelmina's heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed | , and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin) Princess Marie A ... |
Frederick the Great | During the lifetime of | , Blücher was unable to return to the army, but after the king's death in ... |
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | ... t, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece, | , the daughter of her brother, Lord Cambridge. Her personal belongings wer ... |
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married | |
Ferdinand I | ... in the Revolutions of 1848. Metternich and the mentally handicapped Emperor | were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew Franz J ... |
Augustus of Saxony | ... 733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between | , the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński. Austria suppor ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ost other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | at the end of the 15th century, and this union was progressively consolida ... |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen | , who penned an evaluation in her diary |
Robert II, Duke of Normandy | ... called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by | , the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important c ... |
Agnes of Merania | ... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife | . Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ... |
Otho | He was immediately met by a troop of his rival | 's cavalry near the Lacus Curtius in the Forum, where he was killed. Durin ... |
King Edward III | ... of Richmond, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of | . John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daught ... |
Fëanor | ... by the Elves of Valinor in the Uttermost West, by the Noldor and maybe even | himself. Many palantíri were made, but the number is not known. Some had p ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | His 1152 marriage to | allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
Diocletian | ... forced to comply. During a halt at Chalcedon, Numerian was found dead, and | , commander of the body-guards, claimed that Numerian had been assassinate ... |
Trajan | ... movable trees and buildings. Such events were occasionally on a huge scale | ;is said to have celebrated his victories in Dacia in 107 with contests in ... |
Charles the Fat | ... t a sovereign, joined the other East Frankish lands in deposing their king, | , in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king Louis IV ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... devastated several times during the Thirty Years' War and conquered by King | in 1742. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Liegnitz and Glogau. During W ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ry a legend appeared in various chronicles according to which the Pope, the | , and the King of France demanded a tribute from Ferdinand. In certain ver ... |
Henry III of England | ... muster an army to protect Capetian interests against rebellious nobles and | . One of the barons tried to kidnap Louis. He took refuge in a castle and ... |
Emperor Shijō | ... n 1232, he began his own cloistered rule, abdicating to his 1-year-old son, | . However, being of a weak constitution, his cloistered rule lasted just u ... |
John | ... rded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King | granted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Har ... |
Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster | ... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married | , daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ... |
Alexander the Great | ... he centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under | . From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, B ... |
Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
Galba | ... C). The Forum was witness to the assassination of a Roman Emperor in 69 AD: | had set out from the palace to meet rebels, but was so feeble that he had ... |
John II of Portugal | ... d sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). King | appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around th ... |
King Henry II | ... first record of medieval settlement dates to 1179, when it is recorded that | "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor ... |
Emperor Wen of Liu Song | ... nt and killed by government officials led by Xu Xianzhi, replacing him with | , another son of Emperor Wu. Those government officials were soon killed b ... |
Josiah | ... lley, but here he found his passage blocked by the Judean army. Their king, | , sided with the Babylonians and attempted to block his advance at Megiddo ... |
Agrippa II | The later Herodian rulers Agrippa I and | both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristobulus IV, son of ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... c union with Castile and most other kingdoms in Spain since the marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon at the end of the 15th century, and this union ... |
Eleanor of Castile | ... iliation; he arranged the marriage between Edward, his 14 year old son, and | , daughter of Alfonso X. Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assis ... |
Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
emperor | (March 22, 1212 – August 31, 1234) was the 86th | of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spa ... |
Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
Valentinian III | ... attack the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse by making an alliance with Emperor | . He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and i ... |
Ranavalona III | ... f the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible. Queen | was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where sh ... |
Empress Carlota of Mexico | ... also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, | and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ed that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, in 1964, | praised the organization in a handwritten letter to Escrivá, saying |
Francis I | ... ine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano - sailing in service of the French king | - was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City ... |
Emperor Qianfei of Liu Song | ... or Xiaowu died naturally in 464 AD and was succeeded by his son, who became | . Emperor Qianfei proved to be similar to his father, engaging in both kin ... |
Theodosius II | ... an Empire. It is attested from the time of the Christian late-Roman emperor | (423) throughout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the ... |
Henry II | ... rnal politics Stephen I allied himself with his brother-in-law, the Emperor | against Prince Boleslaw I of Poland, who had extended his rule over the te ... |
Lugh | ... , and war and continued oppression followed. When the youthful and vigorous | joined Nuada's court, the king realised the multi-talented youth could lea ... |
Theodosius I | ... ricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded. | , the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the ... |
Zhengde Emperor | ... between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the | . The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of Chin ... |
Prince Alexander | ... a was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless | and the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so un ... |
Philip II of Savoy | Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by | , at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes. Through ... |
Aristobulus II | ... n, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, | , rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head o ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when | wed Isabella I of Castile, led to the formal creation of Spain as a single ... |
Emperor Ming of Liu Song | ... he "Prince of Pigs" for his obesity, eventually assassinated him and became | . Emperor Ming began his reign by killing all the descendants of Emperor X ... |
Ivan IV of Russia | ... likii Kniaz of Muscovy appeared as the Grand Duke for "all of Russia" until | in 1547 was crowned as tsar |
Eadwig | In 955, Eadred died, and the situation was at once changed. | , the elder son of Edmund, who then came to the throne, was a headstrong y ... |
Emperor | ... ment was entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against | Tewodros II of Ethiopia, to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defea ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... ke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. His grandfather was King | |
Sauron | ... e is also apparently a 'price' to be paid for these manifestations, as when | is deprived of the ability to appear in a wholesome form |
Alexander the Great | ... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies. | 's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ... |
Leopold I | ... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of | , first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ... |
George I of Great Britain | ... (the great grandson of James I through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King | |
Edward I | All past and present dukes have been descended from | ; see Dukes of Norfolk family tree |
Isabella I of Castile | ... nastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1479, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed | , led to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516. See List ... |
Cathair Mór | ... ding to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took power after killing his predecessor | . In other sources his predecessor is Dáire Doimthech. The Lia Fáil, the c ... |
Manwë | 2. The Valar and their characteristics are described thus: | – (‘Blessed One’) Brother of Melkor. Between the two, Melkor is ‘mightier’ ... |
Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green. | was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908 |
Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
Elizabeth II | | | |
Valentinian II | In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused | 's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke | abdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ... |
Henry II | After the death of | ( 3 July 1024), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Ho ... |
King William III | ... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of | and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ... |
Carinus | ... that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against | (r. 283–285) but there is no direct evidence for this |
Julius Caesar | ... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are | 's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ... |
Wu Sangui | ... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese general | once the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ... |
Antiochus Hierax | ... lemy III of Egypt and then had to fight a civil war against his own brother | . Taking advantage of this distraction, Bactria and Parthia seceded from t ... |
Elizabeth II | ... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of | and Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... hn Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded his cousin Queen | on the Swedish throne, Pfalz-Zweibrücken was in personal union with Sweden ... |
King Henry VII | ... dfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by | , but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the ... |
Licinius | ... tary superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy. In 313, he met | in Milan to secure their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constant ... |
Guthrum | ... Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking | , arrived in East Anglia. They proceeded to cross England into Northumbria ... |
Władysław I the Elbow-high | ... hts and then with the German Prussian state. The Kingdom was restored under | , strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great. The western ... |
Ranavalona III | ... Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. After a few skirmishes, the Queen | promptly surrendered. The Foreign Legion lost 226 men, of whom only a tent ... |
Philip V of Spain | statesman in the service of | |
Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
Emperor Go-Toba | In 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt by | to seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ... |
Casimir III the Great | ... ored under Władysław I the Elbow-high, strengthened and expanded by his son | . The western provinces of Silesia and Pomerania were lost after the fragm ... |
Louis IX of France | In December 1259, | ceded to Henry land north and east of Gascony. In return, Henry renounced ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of | , which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Mi ... |
Fidel Castro | ... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include | 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ... |
Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song | ... spelled with a different character than the aforementioned Jun), who become | . Emperor Xiaowu proved to be licentious and cruel, supposedly committing ... |
Aragorn | ... Shire. A day's ride east along the road lay The Forsaken Inn, according to | , although nothing more is known of it |
Alexander Nevsky | Regional conflicts with the Order escalated. | of Novgorod, Tautvilas, and Tautvilas's son Constantine agreed to form a c ... |
Carus | ... obus (r. 276–282). He probably participated in the Mesopotamian campaign of | in 283 and attended Diocletian's election as emperor on November 20, 284 a ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... itical) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit. | , in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: ... |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
Edward II | ... without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted to the crown. | then created his brother Thomas of Brotherton earl in 1312. It passed to T ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of | , and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ... |
King Henry VIII | ... and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of | . Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabe ... |
Henry IV of France | ... avour of intervening on behalf of the Protestant powers (and Louis's father | was once a Huguenot leader). On the other hand, Louis XIII had had a stric ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... nciples of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor. When | usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... Protestants. The Tories were suspected of supporting the Catholic Pretender | . George I rewarded the Whigs by forming a Whig government; at his welcome ... |
Maxentius | ... Augusti to the Caesars Constantius and Galerius. Presumably Maximian's son | and Constantius' son Constantine – children raised in Nicomedia together – ... |
Stephen Báthory of Poland | ... ew Castles were often visited by the Commonwealth monarchs including famous | who made a royal residence here. In 1793 the last Sejm in the history of t ... |
Philip IV of France | In May 1286, King Edward I paid homage before the new king, | , for the lands in Gascony. However, in May 1295, Philip 'confiscated' the ... |
Bolesław II the Bold | ... y a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's son | became fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, a ... |
Bres | ... that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king by | , a half-Fomorian prince renowned for his beauty and intellect. The Fomori ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... al of the diadochic Ptolemaic Kingdom under Alexander's immediate successor | |
Emperor Horikawa | This 13th century sovereign was named after the 10th century | and go- (後), translates literally as "later;" and thus, he is sometimes ca ... |
King Arthur | ... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin | , Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor |
Pope John Paul I | ... denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature, Moncada stated. | , a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical tha ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ... Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Roberto I of Parma and | , on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca in Italy, producing four ... |
Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
Juliana | ... onal and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of | , on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childle ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... bringing, and his natural inclination was therefore to support the Catholic | , the Habsburg Ferdinand II |
Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... echt, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to | was Mug Nuadat ("Nuada's Slave"). The Delbhna, a people of early Ireland, ... |
Eadred | ... stan's appointment, in 946, King Edmund was assassinated. His successor was | . The policy of the new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadg ... |
Bolesław I Chrobry | Mieszko's son | established a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and wa ... |
Saladin | The Kurdish Muslim | retook Hebron in 1187 – again with Jewish assistance according to one late ... |
All-father | ... who is often demon-like and dangerous, without any clear connection to the | of Norse mythology, instead being drawn from a earlier "Black God of the H ... |
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein | The Augustenborg male line died out in 1931, upon the death of | , a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-line de ... |
Edward II of England | In 1325, the land was confiscated by Charles IV when | , in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispu ... |
Sauron | ... n's influence over it. According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both | and Saruman to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palant ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations between | and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ... |
Valentinian II | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, | and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p. ... |
Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ing able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother, | ; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown. Not wanting to see A ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
Hyrcanus II | ... 76–67 BCE. She was the only regnant Jewish Queen. During her reign, her son | held the office of High Priest and was named her successor |
Radelchis I of Benevento | ... lfun in 847, who had been part of the mercenary garrison installed there by | . The city was conquered and the Emirate extinguished in 871, due to the e ... |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | ... , upon the death of Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of queen | . Their female-line descendant today holds the throne of Sweden |
Bocchus I | ... uretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurtha. With the help of | of Mauretania, Sulla captured Jugurtha and brought the war to a conclusive ... |
Henry II | ... ria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor | (who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ... |
Justinian I | ... cally a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Theodosius I and | ) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came under the administr ... |
John III of Sweden | In 1582 King | added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish king ... |
Alfonso VIII of Castile | ... of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he inflicted on | in the Battle of Alarcos (1195) |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
Treniota | ... ich lasted for 14 years. Encouraged by these developments and by his nephew | , Mindaugas broke peace with the Order. The gains he had expected from Chr ... |
George II of Greece | ... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King | , to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ... |
Emperor Shun of Liu Song | ... er and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his brother who became | . After defeating his rival general Shen Youzhi, Xiao forced Emperor Shun ... |
Lugaid Riab nDerg | ... st time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for | . In the saga Baile in Scáil ("The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision"), Conn tread ... |
Nuadu Necht | ... haracters of the same name include the later High Kings Nuadu Finn Fáil and | , and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to Co ... |
Nero | ... ther late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of the Emperor | . According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body and ... |
Peter the Great | ... 18,000 of them were Nemtsy, which means either German or western foreigner. | was greatly influenced by the international community located in the Germa ... |
Constance | ... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married | , who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... s cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President | announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be alloca ... |
King George IV | ... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between | , and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | ... tonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territory, becoming | . His duchy, which had its capital in Königsberg (Polish: Królewiec), was ... |
Penda of Mercia | ... est Mercian king about whom definite historical information has survived is | , Wulfhere's father |
Edmund | ... f great influence, and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940, the new King, | , summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister |
Stanislaus II of Poland | ... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ... |
Gratian | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors | , Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. Ma ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1876, | took the additional title of Empress of India |
Richard I | ... s a leader involved in the massacre of the Jews at Cliffords Tower in York. | dismissed the sheriff and constable of York and imposed severe penalties o ... |
King Richard II | When | created Thomas Mowbray duke in 1397, he conferred upon him the estates and ... |
Thorin Oakenshield | Gandalf and | met by coincidence in Bree, setting in motion the events recounted in The ... |
Antiochus III the Great | A revival would begin when Seleucus II's younger son, | , took the throne in 223 BC. Although initially unsuccessful in the Fourth ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or | ) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's la ... |
Alexander III | ... nnockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of | |
King Edward IV of England | ... s arranged between Anne and Richard, Duke of York, the four-year-old son of | . She remained Richard's child bride until she died at the age of 8 |
Saruman | ... ce over it. According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both Sauron and | to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palantíri "lie", o ... |
Jotham | ... king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign | became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded ... |
Nia Segamain | ... ated with the eagle or hawk. The name of the legendary High King of Ireland | , which translates as "sister's son or champion of Segamon", may be relate ... |
Mathieu Kérékou | ... about many changes of government. The last of these brought to power Major | as the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. The ... |
Conrad II | ... varia). In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by | to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier. In 1030, the emperor le ... |
Aelia Eudocia | ... tine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress | . This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survi ... |
Charles I | During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under | , by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord ... |
Alexander I | ... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperor | in 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ... |
Theodosius I | ... nius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors | and Justinian I) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came unde ... |
Phocas | ... Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor | . This proved to be the last monumental addition made to the Forum. By the ... |
Nuadu Finn Fáil | ... bly Nechtan. Other characters of the same name include the later High Kings | and Nuadu Necht, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya. | (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ... |
Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
Abu Yaqub Yusuf | ... and more distinguished career than the Murabits (or Almoravids). Yusuf I or | (1163–1184), and Ya'qub I or Yaqub al-Mansur (1184-1199), the successors o ... |
Prince Albert | ... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that year | became the patron of the regatta |
Francis II | ... ope. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Holy Roman Emperor | kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These achievements, ... |
William II | ... e received the area's submission. This fortress was destroyed by the Danes. | gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong c ... |
As-Salih Ayyub | ... treaty guaranteeing regional stability stipulated with the Egyptian Sultan | , managed to impose peace on the area. But soon after his departure, feudi ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King | . He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by | . It would become an archdiocese in 1983 |
Prince George, Duke of Kent | ... scuous with both sexes. One report suggests he would procure guardsmen with | . Private Eye magazine, which termed Mountbatten 'a raging queen' brought ... |
Azzone Visconti | ... y the Milanese in 1201 and again in 1275. In 1328 it finally surrendered to | , and thereafter shared the political fortunes of Milan. The Church of S. ... |
Jane Seymour | ... ly small, given that the drama's second part focused more on the stories of | and Catherine Howard |
Augustus | ... the Principate to become the first truly professional firefighting service. | called for the creation of a trained fire guard, paid and equipped by the ... |
Edward III | ... aster inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of | ; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in ... |
Charles II of Spain | ... Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt ( | ). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys the suit, and he is Humphrey ... |
Yaqub al-Mansur | ... ts (or Almoravids). Yusuf I or Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1163–1184), and Ya'qub I or | (1184-1199), the successors of Abd al-Mumin, were both able men. Initially ... |
Kyril | ... d by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son, | , was executed. On hearing of his son's death he said, "Everything is coll ... |
Peter I | John was the natural son of | by a woman named Teresa, who, according to Fernão Lopes, was a noble Galic ... |
Alexander Jannaeus | ... t between them became wider when Pharisees demanded that the Hasmonean king | choose between being king and being High Priest. In response, the king ope ... |
Nero | ... the 2nd millennium BCE. The leek was the favourite vegetable of the Emperor | , who consumed it in soup or in oil, believing it beneficial to the qualit ... |
Galla Placidia | When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother | convinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila ... |
Valentinian II | In 392, after the death of | and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the p ... |
King George III | ... ually important goals. At the suggestion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, | was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue in 1787 the Proclam ... |
Catherine Howard | ... hat the drama's second part focused more on the stories of Jane Seymour and | |
Dáire Doimthech | ... er killing his predecessor Cathair Mór. In other sources his predecessor is | . The Lia Fáil, the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when t ... |
Emperor Houfei of Liu Song | ... y regained in the other Southern Dynasties. Emperor Ming's young son became | . The political situation was volatile. The general Xiao Daocheng slowly g ... |
Sauron | ... the enemies' eyes. Knowledge of this technique was lost long ago, although | probably knew of it |
Desta Damtew | ... ork married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnework first married Ras | , and after she was widowed later married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to | , for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ... |
Conrad II | ... Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, | claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the ... |
Edwin of Northumbria | ... imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms. The fifth of these was | , who was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force inclu ... |
Robert Bruce | ... her a powerful army. According to the historian and poet John Barbour, King | rebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee had probably fallen t ... |
Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei | ... successive leaders, Gao Huan took control of the east and Luoyang (holding | as a puppet ruler) by 534, while his rival Yuwen Tai took control of the w ... |
Emperor | ... s. In either late 67 or early 68, he rebelled against the tax policy of the | Nero. According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body ... |
Agamemnon | ... . It begins with Achilles' withdrawal from battle after he is dishonored by | , the commander of the Achaean forces. Agamemnon had taken a woman named C ... |
Charles VIII | ... ession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lorenzo de' Medici—King | had him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow Pico to move to Flor ... |
King Richard III | ... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that | , his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was) |
Vasili III | The earliest German settlement in Russia dates back to the reign of | in the 16th century. A handful of German and Dutch craftsmen and traders w ... |
Saruman | ... ly, every character who attempted to look through a palantír was deceived-- | looked through the Orthanc stone, and saw what he thought was an unassaila ... |
Dumuzid | ... priestess would choose for her bed a young man who represented the shepherd | , consort of Inanna, in a hieros gamos or sacred marriage, celebrated duri ... |
Ælla of Deira | Æthelfrith married Acha of Deira, daughter of | . They had eight children |
Alla Amidas | ... be supported by the die-links between his coins and those of his successor, | . An inscription of Sumyafa' Ashwa' also mentions two kings (nagaśt) of Ak ... |
Alexander the Great | ... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestor | to neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ... |
Baibars | ... after the Mongol raids into Palestine, one of which touched Hebron, Sultan | 's Mamluk rule established peace. The minarets were built onto the structu ... |
Salome Alexandra | ... conciliation between the two parties. Alexander was succeeded by his widow, | , whose brother was Shimon ben Shetach, a leading Pharisee. Upon her death ... |
Claudius | ... index, of a noble Gaulish family of Aquitania given senatorial status under | , was a Roman governor in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis. In either la ... |
Claudius | ... en a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times. The emperor | sent the Romans into Britain in 43 A.D and they settled in Staines the sam ... |
Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster | ... nued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330. | , inherited the castle from his father in 1345 and remodelled the great ha ... |
Muhammad | ... n, Islamic jurists have turned to the collections of the hadith (sayings of | ) and akhbar (accounts of his life). These, on the other hand, are perfect ... |
King Arthur | ... ention because of its role in influencing the legends and myths surrounding | . It is the earliest source that presents Arthur as an historical figure, ... |
Gallienus | ... at Pons Sarravi (Sarrebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from | (253-68) to Theodosius I (379-395). These were scattered over the floor wh ... |
Mindaugas | ... he most of Black Ruthenia, was controlled by princes of Lithuanian origin ( | and others) to form the Baltic-Slavic state - Grand Duchy of Lithuania on ... |
King Haakon VII | ... f Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces, | received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best ... |
Hadrian | ... as a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor | (AD 117-138) |
Kebek | ... e 11 day caravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans | and Qazan built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. ... |
Princess Zenebework | ... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, | , Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Mao Zedong | ... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts." | , chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ... |
Peter III | ... spicious of Catherine upon her accession because she had annulled an act by | that had essentially freed the serfs belonging to the Orthodox Church. Nat ... |
Bahadur Shah | ... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. | was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862 |
Emperor Wu of Southern Qi | ... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as | . Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ... |
Stephen I of Hungary | The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to | by Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the reign title 'Apostolic King') is ... |
Olaf | ... a (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by Snorri Sturluson. In 1021, King | laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovre, and forced them ei ... |
Grand Prince | He was born as Vajk in the town of Esztergom. His father was | Géza of Hungary; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania ... |
Alexander Jannaeus | ... elp it retain water). Coins found within this plaster date from the time of | (104—76 BC), while a separate collection of coins, dating from the time of ... |
Elendil | ... iven to the Dúnedain of Númenor as a gift, during the Second Age. Of these, | took seven with him on his flight to Middle-earth, and after the Kingdoms ... |
Henry II of England | ... a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of | . In fact, Henry's chief effect on the development of the English monarchy ... |
Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
Richard III | ... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king, | , in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk |
Vandal Savage | ... he central antagonists in the animated film . The members here are Cheetah, | , Star Sapphire, Bane, Metallo, Mirror Master, and Ma'alefa'ak. Cheetah is ... |
Henry VIII | When | broke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the Dissoluti ... |
Emperor Joseph II | In 1780, the son of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, | , toyed with the idea of determining whether or not to enter an alliance w ... |
Princess Tenagnework | By Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: | , Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ... |
Theodosius I | ... ebourg) in Gallia Belgica, in a series that runs from Gallienus (253-68) to | (379-395). These were scattered over the floor when the Mithraeum was dest ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... es of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of | shortly after 550 BC. The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule, ev ... |
Ivar the Boneless | ... r encampment. The following year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers | , Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived ... |
Xiao Zhaoye | The short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons, | and Xiao Zhaowen (his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao L ... |
William the Conqueror | ... iminal justice more effective, Henry employed the method of inquest used by | in the Domesday Book. In each shire a body of important men was sworn (jur ... |
Henry II | ... cal rulers continued fighting amongst themselves the Norman King of England | was invited to intervene. He arrived in 1171, took control of much land, a ... |
Eutropia | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, | : Maxentius and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources ... |
Henry II | Bedford traces its borough charter in 1166 by | and elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons |
Emperor Zhao's | ... ilitary. The minimum age for the military draft was reduced to twenty after | (r. 87–74 BCE) reign. Conscripted soldiers underwent one year of training ... |
Henry Frederick | ... manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son | king "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from ... |
Alexander II | The decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of | . In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ... |
Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
Licinius | ... tantine was again demoted to Caesar, with Maximinus the Caesar in the east. | , a loyal military companion to Galerius, was appointed Augustus of the We ... |
Menen Asfaw | By | , Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfa ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
Henry VIII | ... seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King | during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to pray for his soul. In 2006, 3 ... |
Judith of Bavaria | ... rown sons. A fourth son, Charles the Bald, was born to Louis's second wife, | , in 823. When Louis tried in 833 to re-divide the empire for the benefit ... |
Vortigern | The Historia contains a story of the king | , who allowed the Saxons to settle in the island of Britain in return for ... |
Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
James I of Scotland | ... d many distinguished prisoners. The heir to the Scottish throne, later King | , was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. ... |
Ecgfrith of Northumbria | ... rd of Northumbria as his father had been. In 674, he challenged Oswiu's son | , but was defeated. He died, probably of disease, in 675. Wulfhere was suc ... |
Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
Lugh | ... see a phantom, a tall beautiful man, on a throne, who introduces himself as | . The woman is the sovereignty of Ireland, and she serves Conn a meal cons ... |
Hadrian | ... iginally the Shrine of the Four Nymphs (Tetranymphon), a nymphaeum built by | during the construction of Aelia Capitolina in 135, and mentioned in Byzan ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted | (1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ... |
Medferiashwork Abebe | ... Princess Wolete Israel Seyoum and then following their divorce to Princess | . Prince Makonnen was married to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassi ... |
Kaleb of Axum | ... e capital, killing many and destroying the church there. The Christian King | learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, acco ... |
Princess Fawzia | ... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year, | of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ... |
Ramon Berenguer I | ... based on complex fealties and dependencies. From the time of the triumph of | over the other Catalan counts, the counts of Barcelona stood firmly at the ... |
Muhammad | Sunan al-Tirmidhi again reports | as having prescribed the death penalty for both the active and the passive ... |
Jehoahaz | On his return march to Egypt in 608 BC, Necho found that | had been selected to succeed his father, Josiah. Necho deposed Jehoahaz, w ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king | of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ... |
Antiochus II Theos | Antiochus I (reigned 281–261 BC) and his son and successor | (reigned 261–246 BC) were faced with challenges in the west, including rep ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like | , the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or ... |
James VI of Scotland | ... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, | , to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ... |
King Christian IV | ... 909 and are based on the oldest seal of the city, dating from 1643. In 1643 | (of Denmark and Norway) granted the young city the right to use a seal wit ... |
Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi | ... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow | (d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ... |
Charles the Bald | ... 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown sons. A fourth son, | , was born to Louis's second wife, Judith of Bavaria, in 823. When Louis t ... |
Gustav IV Adolph | ... esses, they ended with two failures. Her Swedish cousin (once removed) King | visited her in September 1796, the empress's intention being that her gran ... |
John II Sigismund Zápolya | ... ism became official in 1583, following the faith of the only Unitarian King | 1541-1571) were declared as accepted (recepta) religions, while Orthodox C ... |
Actor | ... me from her, where, however, Philonides speaks of an Alope as a daughter of | . There was a monument of Alope on the road from Eleusis to Megara, on the ... |
Juba II | ... Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored | (son of Juba I) after the Battle of Actium |
Yongle Emperor | ... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the | protesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4,000,000 dan (42 ... |
Genghis Khan | ... The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and Qazan built palaces here on the site of | 's summer pasture. In 1364, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats ... |
Prince Makonnen | ... nagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, | , and Prince Sahle Selassie |
Queen Victoria | ... ment for British rule. In a royal proclamation made to the people of India, | promised equal opportunity of public service under British law, and also p ... |
Prince Sahle Selassie | ... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and | |
Herod the Great | ... and its surrounding structures were a result of monumental construction by | is not yet understood (as of September 2006); nor is the relationship of t ... |
Theodosius I | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and | carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p.100 quote: See al ... |
Jehoahaz | ... urned to Egypt. On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected | to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiak ... |
King Christian IV | The city was named after its founder | in 1641. The last element sand refers to the sandy headland the city was b ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact, | is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ... |
Frederick III of Brandenburg | Ducal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Elector | to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ... |
Xiao Baojuan | ... ry to find silver fish (银鱼). He died in 498 AD and was succeeded by his son | , whose killed high officials and governors at his whim, sparking many rev ... |
Timoleon | ... r fully recovered its former status, though it revived to some extent under | in the latter part of the 4th century |
Seleucus II Callinicus | By the time Antiochus II's son | came to the throne around 246 BC, the Seleucids seemed to be at a low ebb ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... es in the Empire seems to have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of | and under Marcus Aurelius. By this time all the key elements of the myster ... |
Tewodros II of Ethiopia | ... entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against Emperor | , to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defeated by Emperor Tewodros ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | ... cceeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under | , who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off |
Henry VIII | ... f the arms (shown to the right) was granted as an Augmentation of Honour by | to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the Ba ... |
king | ... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was a | and his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ... |
Henry II the Wrangler | Stephen married Giselle of Bavaria, the daughter of | in or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the fut ... |
Sargon of Akkad | ... empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the great | pushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. It would not be ... |
Charles I | ... o held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), | and Charles II |
Abd al-Mu'min | ... built up at Tinmel. There was probably a struggle for succession, in which | prevailed. Although a Zenata Berber from Targa (Algeria), and thus an alie ... |
Pekahiah | ... kh; "open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king | of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah (; ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... ans of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies. | further stated, again in Quadragesimo Anno, "every social activity ought o ... |
King of Kings | Shah or shahanshah (" | ") was the title of Persian emperors or kings. It includes rulers of the f ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of | , Britannia had been renewed. Still depicted as a young woman with brown o ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... anish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, | 's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years. The Ki ... |
Crispus | ... le of Mardia in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons | and Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
Holy Roman Emperor Francis II | ... ecisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and | , after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place nea ... |
Edward II | ... many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to | . War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the Battle of Borou ... |
Elizabeth I | ... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as | in the film Shakespeare in Love |
Henry VI of England | ... France, and made his England bleed" – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of | , which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of pl ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... ousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousins once removed through King | . Elizabeth fell in love with Philip and they began to exchange letters. E ... |
Louis the Pious | ... awn up for a division of the Carolingian Empire on the death of the emperor | . Unforeseen in 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown son ... |
Baldwin II of Jerusalem | In the year 1113 during the reign of | , according to Ali of Herat (writing in 1173), a certain part over the cav ... |
Akbar | ... cluding those of the Mughal Empire. For instance, the third Mughal emperor, | the Great (1542–1605), was formally known as "Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam" |
Emperor He of Southern Qi | ... ao Yan to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared | . Xiao Baojun was killed by one of his general during the siege of his cap ... |
Maria Theresa | ... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under | ) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ... |
King Arthur | ... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by | to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ... |
Saruman | ... s Treebeard to carry them toward Isengard, because that is the "last place" | would look for them. When Treebeard gets close to the forest's edge, he se ... |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather, | (the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
Thrasydaeus | ... aris and Theron, and became a democracy after the overthrow of Theron's son | . Although the city remained neutral in the conflict between Athens and Sy ... |
Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... exandra had lost a brother, Friedrich, to the disease, as well as an uncle, | . Her sister Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was also a carrier of th ... |
Emperor of China | ... e Zhengde Emperor. The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the | (as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the So ... |
Mary Tudor | ... pass from their possession. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to | , sister of King Edward VI |
the Master | ... interview regarding the series' revival, Baker suggested that he be cast as | . In a 2006 interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims that he has not wa ... |
King Cadwaladr | ... "Peter's Leek," Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David’s Day. According to one legend, | of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vege ... |
1st Duke of York | ... and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisation of the | (one of the Princes in the Tower, who was also 1st Duke of Norfolk) on 25 ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, | . This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... have happened quite quickly, late in the reign of Antoninus Pius and under | . By this time all the key elements of the mysteries were in place |
King John | ... sents information for an indictment. The grand jury was later recognized by | in Magna Carta in on demand of the nobility |
Dunama Dabbalemi | Kanem's expansion peaked during the long and energetic reign of Mai | (ca. 1203–1242), also of the Sayfawa dynasty. Dabbalemi initiated diplomat ... |
Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
Victor Emmanuel II | ... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and | , who would later become the first king of a united Italy |
Aragorn | In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider ( | ) at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ... |
James Francis Edward Stuart | ... St. John, the first Viscount Bolingbroke from declaring for the Pretender, | . The Marlboroughs returned home on the afternoon of Anne's death. The Act ... |
Xiao Zhaowen | The short reigns of Emperor Wu's grandsons, Xiao Zhaoye and | (his first son predeceased him), were dominated by Xiao Luan, Emperor's Wu ... |
Maxentius | Maximian had two children with his Syrian wife, Eutropia: | and Fausta. There is no direct evidence in the ancient sources for their b ... |
Henry III | ... d game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of | , in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of t ... |
Louis | ... tion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona. Charlemagne's son | took Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately forming a frontier ... |
Nauplius | ... ite of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid. To Poseidon she bore | , "the navigator," who gave his name to the port city of Argos |
Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
King Edward VI | ... ssion. In 1553, for example, Framlingham was given to Mary Tudor, sister of | |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but | soon found out and had Columbus put into chains |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
Ferdinand IV of Castile | ... unicipal charter dated in Valladolid on June 15, 1300 and confirmed by king | in Burgos, on January 4, 1301. Diego López stablished the new town on the ... |
Demetrius I of Bactria | ... verrun by the invasion of northern nomads. One of the Greco-Bactrian kings, | , invaded India around 180 BC to form the Greco-Indian kingdom, lasting un ... |
Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
Septimius Severus | ... midia was divided between Mauretania and the province of Africa Nova. Under | (193 AD), Numidia was separated from Africa Vetus, and governed by an impe ... |
Maria Luisa of Savoy | ... use her influence in carrying out his plans. Upon the death of the Queen ( | ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 b ... |
King Hussein of Jordan | ... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. | bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ... |
Henry I's | ... ountess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne on | death in 1135, he became to the English throne |
Sophia of Hanover | ... udwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of James I through his mother | ), King George I of Great Britain |
Charles II | ... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and | |
Hippothoon | ... pe, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to | . Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | The last shah of Persia, | , officially adopted the title شاهنشاه shâhanshâh (literally King of Kings ... |
Otto | ... wing his assassination in 1831, the Great Powers installed a monarchy under | , of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach. In 1843 an uprising forced the kin ... |
George I | ... ar later replaced by Prince Wilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the name | and brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. ... |
Aristagoras | ... finally broke into open revolt due to the actions of the tyrant of Miletus, | . Attempting to save himself after a disastrous Persian-sponsored expediti ... |
Alfonso XI | ... th the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by | in 1339. On the other hand, the town of Buitrago de Lozoya, Alcalá de Hena ... |
Elizabeth II | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queen | among many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ... |
King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
Licinius | In the year 320, | reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ... |
Commodus | ... ks are now lost. According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperor | participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults |
Ferdinand II of Portugal | ... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of | , and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ... |
Harold II | ... as an ally of William the Conqueror, and is listed as a possible killer of | ; he is also believed to have given William his own horse after the duke's ... |
Diocletian | ... rned by an imperial procurator. Under the new organization of the empire by | , Numidia was divided in two provinces: the north became Numidia Cirtensis ... |
Manasseh | During the long reign of | (c. 687/686 - 643/642 BC), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennach ... |
King Edward V | For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of | in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ... |
Emperor Ming of Southern Qi | ... Emperor's Wu's first cousin. He killed them in turn and crowned himself as | . Using the government secretaries (典签官), he slaughtered all the descendan ... |
Justin I | ... rding to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian | of Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part ... |
Ahaz | ... g of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, | in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. William F. Albright has dated hi ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... outbreak of the First World War, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful | , who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are s ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents. The Habsburg | s had long been interested in mercantilist policies, but the vast and dece ... |
Nazgûl | ... Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), snaga, meaning "slave", and ghâsh "fire". The name | is a combination of "nazg" meaning "ring" and "gûl" meaning "wraith(s)", t ... |
Malcolm IV | ... Crown came to his youngest son, David. David was succeeded by his grandsons | , and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before ... |
Henry II | ... n, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of Foix. Their son | , king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer of France in 1550 b ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... ust as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburban dioceses around Rome. | abolished all administrative rights cardinals had with regard to their tit ... |
Theodoric I | ... vitus, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king | (Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached Orléans a ... |
Gunderic | ... taces. The remainder of his people subsequently appealed to the Vandal king | to accept the Alan crown. Later Vandal kings in North Africa styled themse ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ears' War (1618–1648), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, | being notable proponents. The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors had long been i ... |
King Henry II | ... court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of | of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name an ... |
Justinian I | ... for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that included his eminent nephew | and for the enactment of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old ... |
The Duke of Kent | ... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was from | that the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ... |
Darius I of Persia | ... also made voyages using Maka to communicate with India. After Cyrus' death | succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian Herodotus, Darius wante ... |
Philip | ... ek city-states were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of | 's and Alexander the Great's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might gene ... |
Theodosius I | ... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of | (379-395) |
Louis XVI | ... trumps the Duke's claim by alleging that he is the Lost Dauphin, the son of | and rightful King of France. He continually mispronounces the duke's title ... |
Tewodros II | ... ue of Nations in 1923 by promising to eradicate slavery; each emperor since | had issued proclamations to halt slavery, but without effect: the internat ... |
John I of Portugal | ... attle of Ceuta, the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of | . The King of Spain, Phillip II, seized the Portuguese throne in 1580 and ... |
Eystein Halfdansson | ... raves") and as taking King Halfdan Hvitbeinn from life. In chapter 46, King | dies by being knocked overboard by a sail yard. A section from Ynglingatal ... |
Catherine of Foix | ... . John of Albret, son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with | . Their son Henry II, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer ... |
King David | ... uel as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with | ; scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage ... |
King of Italy | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the | and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, ... |
Lothair | ... re for the benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, | , Pepin, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punct ... |
Christina of Sweden | ... entral Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), with | , Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable propone ... |
Maximilian I | ... ing, and also successor of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine. The emperor | , interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... in the ordainment of Roman religion attributed to Romulus' royal successor, | . There is however no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before t ... |
Constans | ... ceeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, Constantius II and | . A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably C ... |
Sharif Hussein bin Ali | In 1925 the forces of Ibn Saud captured the holy city of Mecca from | , ending 700 years of Hashemite rule. On 10 January 1926, Ibn Saud proclai ... |
Thoas | ... future wife of Acastus (otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married | ; and an unnamed daughter, who became the mother of Asterius by Teutamus |
Pope John XXIII | ... an sees (who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by | three years earlier). Not holding a suburbicarian see, they cannot elect t ... |
Philip II of France | ... he spent little time in England, instead concentrating on the war with King | , which began with Philip's attempts to acquire Richard's possessions on t ... |
Charlemagne | The Islands were defended by the emperor | in 799 from a Saracen pirate incursion |
Christina of Sweden | ... ite of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen | |
Ptolemy II Philadelphus | ... ign, which have been partly preserved to us through Diodorus Siculus. Later | , the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is al ... |
Daumantas | ... e midst of these events Mindaugas' wife Morta died, and he took her sister, | ' wife, as his own. In retaliation, Daumantas and Treniota assassinated Mi ... |
Halfdan Hvitbeinn | ... el as "howes'-warder" (meaning "guardian of the graves") and as taking King | from life. In chapter 46, King Eystein Halfdansson dies by being knocked o ... |
Charlemagne | ... who wanted to maintain Bavarian independence, was defeated and displaced by | in 789. An eastern march (military borderland), the Avar March, was establ ... |
David | ... idetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King | 's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he paid as tribute t ... |
Agamemnon | The word Atreides refers to one of the sons of Atreus— | and Menelaus. The plural form Atreidae or Atreidai refers to both sons col ... |
Malcolm | ... tle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son | . The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson Lulach, Malcolm asce ... |
Maximilian III | The Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order | , son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 161 ... |
Peter III of Russia | ... 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor | , but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltyko |
Muhammad | ... m de guerre of Abu Ammar. Both names are related to Ammar ibn Yasir, one of | 's early companions. Although he dropped most of his inherited names, he r ... |
John Hyrcanus | ... eucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, | opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he ... |
John of Albret | ... o the liberal grants which it had obtained from successive kings of France. | , son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of F ... |
Pope John X | Pope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded | (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ... |
King Henry VIII | ... e River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of | , circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed t ... |
Odoacer | ... avenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by | ; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule of Odoacer, but soon ... |
William IV | ... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was | : Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ... |
Lothair I | ... was the King of Italy and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father | until 855, after which he ruled alone. Louis's usual title was imperator a ... |
Paul I of Russia | #Emperor | (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ... |
Lothair | ... for his succession, but Hugh Capet appointed Arnulf, an illegitimate son of | instead. Arnulf was deposed in 991 for alleged treason against the King, a ... |
Richard III | ... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as | , both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | ... the monarchy), Richard III is described as "the undoubted son and heir" of | , and "born in this land" — an oblique reference to his brother's birth at ... |
Charles II | ... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored | , who granted the most liberal political terms |
Tipu Sultan | ... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, | . Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ... |
Liliuokalani | ... him. When his wife, Queen Kapiolani, and his sister, Princess (later Queen) | , took a trip across North America and on to the British Islands, in 1887, ... |
Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
Euphemia | ... emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His consort was Empress | |
Pepin | ... e benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, | , and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated b ... |
Constantius II | ... s there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, | and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantiu ... |
Maximilian II | ... ussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperor | died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 1618, and the Duchy of Prussia pas ... |
Nero | ... tes back to the 1st century AD, when Seneca the Younger, a tutor of Emperor | of Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indistinct, are seen enlarged ... |
King Abdullah | ... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion against | of Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ... |
Queen Kapiolani | ... p around the world, he brought his native language with him. When his wife, | , and his sister, Princess (later Queen) Liliuokalani, took a trip across ... |
Louis XV | ... pulation was not forced out but rather their religion was declared illegal. | ordered all blacks to be deported from France, but was unsuccessful |
Philip II of France | ... 's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King | . Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some ei ... |
Ecgfrith | ... Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of Oswiu and his son | |
Pope Paul VI | In 1965 | decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the ... |
David | ... s successively became king. Eventually, the Crown came to his youngest son, | . David was succeeded by his grandsons Malcolm IV, and then by William the ... |
Peter II | ... uese João Francisco António de Bragança, in Lisbon and succeeded his father | in December 1706, and was proclaimed on January 1, 1707 |
Charles VIII | ... (d. 1522), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against | ; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of A ... |
George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
George I Louis | ... of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The first of these was | , who acceded to the British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... ations into Polish). The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King | , who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... his Seleucid suzerains. Within a year of the death of Simon, Seleucid King | attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King David ... |
Oswiu | ... kingdom, although Deira had its own sub-kings at times during the reigns of | and his son Ecgfrith |
Ottonian | As allies of the Carolingian kings and the empire of their | successors, the Obotrites fought from 808 to 1200 against the kings of Den ... |
Louis VII of France | ... aimed at all his friends and supporters as well as Becket himself; but King | offered Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abb ... |
Usman dan Fodio | ... lani reformist jihads swept across Western Africa. The most notable include | 's Fulani Empire, which replaced the Hausa city-states, Seku Amadu's Massi ... |
Ranjit Singh | Undivided Punjab was ruled by a Sikh dynasty founded by Maharaja | for 50 years from 1799 to 1849 AD, before its conquest by the British. Bef ... |
David Kalākaua | ... mar of Hawaiian ("Über die Hawaiische Sprache") in 1837. When Hawaiian King | took a trip around the world, he brought his native language with him. Whe ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ern half of Oman as well as Balochistan and the Sindh province of Pakistan. | united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empire |
Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
Sharif Hussein | ... Al-Khuzai and his tribe had dominated eastern Jordan before the arrival of | . Ibn Saud supported Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai and his followers in rebellio ... |
Anastasius I | ... s ability, rose through the ranks to become a general and under the Emperor | ; by the time of Anastasius' death in 518, he held the influential positio ... |
Charles I | ... ntury history, while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers | , the English Civil War, the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, an ... |
Romulus Augustulus | ... tal was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror | was deposed by Odoacer; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule ... |
Alexander III | ... s succeeded by his son Alexander II. Alexander II, as well as his successor | , attempted to take over the Western Isles, which were still under the ove ... |
John Hyrcanus | ... semi-independent Seleucid client states such as Judea to revolt. In 110 BCE | carried out the first military conquests of the newly independent Hasmonea ... |
Duchess of York | ... reer, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the | , led to fractures in the marriage. On 19 March 1992 the couple announced ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... n a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with | 's entourage |
Habibullah Khan | ... -Afghan War of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler | . His son and successor Amanullah declared full independence and attacked ... |
Justin II | ... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and | (b. ca 520) |
Akbar | ... ed Sheykhu Baba, he was the third and eldest surviving son of Mogul Emperor | . Akbar's twin sons, Hasan and Hussain, died in infancy. His mother was th ... |
George IV | ... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, by | in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ... |
Maria Clementina Sobieska | ... e female bust bears a resemblance to the Jacobite Queen and Polish Princess | , wife of James the Old Pretender. The two putti with reddish hair who acc ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with | as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, An ... |
Frederick II | ... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperor | reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ... |
Constantine VII | ... Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future | , Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have becom ... |
Eurystheus | ... refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended to the throne in the absence of King | , who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their steward ... |
Theodora | ... have varied from c. 277 to c. 287, and most date Fausta's birth to c. 298. | , the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter ... |
King of Lithuania | ... ing antagonist of the Lithuanians. During the summer of 1253 he was crowned | , ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master | converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teuton ... |
Artemisia | ... il of war with the Persian fleet; Herodotus says this occurred at Phalerum. | , queen of Halicarnassus and commander of its naval squadron in Xerxes's f ... |
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus | ... 6 BCE, a civil war between Seleucid half-brothers Antiochus VIII Grypus and | broke out, resulting in a further breakup of the already significantly red ... |
Faisal | ## | (April 1906 – 25 March 1975); reigned 1964–197 |
Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
Henry VIII | The chief minister of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ... |
Louis XVIII | ... 2, when Hugo was only twenty years old, and earned him a royal pension from | . Though the poems were admired for their spontaneous fervor and fluency, ... |
Oswald | ... ar he went to Cadwallon to sue for peace and was killed. Eanfrith's brother | then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the Battle of Heaven ... |
grandfather | ... leagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and | . Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, and they had met ... |
Cadmus | ... ugh no classical source explicitly connects the two, Ino is the daughter of | of Tyre. Lewis Farnell thought not, referring in 1916 to "the accidental r ... |
Marie I of Boulogne | ... bury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading | ;; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot |
Albert Frederick | ... viate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded | |
Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
Antiochus VIII Grypus | ... st of the Euphrates. In 116 BCE, a civil war between Seleucid half-brothers | and Antiochus IX Cyzicenus broke out, resulting in a further breakup of th ... |
John VI of Portugal | ... one another. In the Portuguese colony, the heir apparent Pedro, son of King | , proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first ... |
Leo VI the Wise | ... isfavor after Photios' dismissal in 886 and retired to a monastery. Emperor | retrieved him from the monastery and made him mystikos, a dignity designat ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... oly See. Relations with the Holy See were defined during the pontificate of | (1922–1939 |
Bindusara | ... an ambassador, Megasthenes, to Chandragupta, and later Deimakos to his son | , at the Mauryan court at Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state). Megas ... |
Royal Standard of Scotland | ... ngham Palace, Windsor Castle and Sandringham House, whereas in Scotland the | is flown at Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... ave had their births recorded). Furthermore, the christening celebration of | , the second son of Richard and Cecily, was a lavish and expensive affair ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen | at the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ... |
Otto I | ... erbert with him. There Gerbert met Pope John XIII (965–972) and the Emperor | , surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerber ... |
Rurik | ... al relation with the Varagians defending the cities that they ruled. Led by | and his brothers Truvor and Sineus, the invited Varangians (called Rus') s ... |
William III | The following century, | 's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ... |
Louis | ... f Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin, and | . A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated by brief per ... |
Charlemagne | ... of the Frankish Kingdom. On conquering the Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 774, | had himself crowned King of the Lombards. Consequently, Tyrol came to be o ... |
Nazgûl | ... existing in two forms, the ancient "pure" forms used by Sauron himself, the | , and the Olog-hai, and the more "debased" form used by the soldiery of th ... |
Alexander II | ... needed for the Crusades. William died in 1214, and was succeeded by his son | . Alexander II, as well as his successor Alexander III, attempted to take ... |
Eanfrith | ... ain was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then briefly ruled by | , son of Aethelfrith, but after about a year he went to Cadwallon to sue f ... |
Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... 931 Hitler sent Göring on a mission to the Vatican, where he met the future | |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... stern end that hold annual polo and special events. The Prince of Wales and | were seen in the polo clubs |
Khalid | ## | (II) (1913 – 13 June 1982); reigned 1975–198 |
Akbar | In 1600, when | was away from the capital on an expedition, Salim broke into an open rebel ... |
Pharaoh | ... f Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah. . Nebuchadnez ... |
Dalmatius | ... ives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably Constantine's nephews | (who held the rank of Caesar) and Hannibalianus, presumably to eliminate p ... |
Henry II, King of England | ... s twelfth century poet are: Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to | ; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie I of Boulogne; Marie, Abbess of Barking; ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... tugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king | 's mother. That happened around 1450. Still forks were not commonly used i ... |
Prince George of Denmark | In 1702, he was at Epsom when | , husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ... |
Phraates II of Parthia | ... s and in 129 BCE Antiochus VII Sidetes was killed in Media by the forces of | , permanently ending Seleucid rule east of the Euphrates. In 116 BCE, a ci ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... cated under pressure. The individual who most benefited from the crisis was | , who reigned from 1929 to 1933. Both the Soviets and the British played t ... |
Nick Nickson | ... for the Lakers, Kings, indoor soccer and indoor tennis events at the Forum. | , a radio broadcaster for the Los Angeles Kings, replaced John Ramsey as t ... |
Sauron | ... in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the language as being created by | as an artificial language to be the sole language of all the servants of M ... |
Ermengarde of Tours | He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and | . He was designated King of Italy in 839 and took up his residence in that ... |
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena | ... his children. However, Pachelbel spent only one year in Eisenach. In 1678, | , Johann Georg's brother, died and during the period of mourning court mus ... |
Alp Arslan | ... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan | of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ... |
Ibn Hud | ... until 1147, when the Almohads who conquered the land and ruled, apart from | 's rebellion of 1232, until the Tunisian Hafsids established their control ... |
Avitus | ... troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by | , and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king The ... |
Charles V | ... ci. Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor | retook Florence after a long siege. Pope Clement VII subsequently installe ... |
Władysław II the Exile | ... m the 11th-12th centuries it was also a castellany. After the death of Duke | , Silesia was divided in 1163 between two Piast lines- the Wrocławska line ... |
Louis II | ... ed his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To the eldest, | , went Italy, with the imperial title. To the youngest, Charles, still a m ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
Agamemnon | ... was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of | and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atrei ... |
Alexander | ... jepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king | would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjets ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... limit of 70, and this continued under his successors. At the start of 1971, | set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more ... |
Henry VIII | ... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King | 's |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... een disintegrating in the face of the Seleucid–Parthian wars and in 129 BCE | was killed in Media by the forces of Phraates II of Parthia, permanently e ... |
Adolphus | ... e was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy | represented the monarch in Hanover |
Jane Seymour | ... spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset (a brother of the late queen, | ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephe ... |
King of Lithuania | ... 1200 – fall 1263) was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only | . Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is ment ... |
Fahd | ## | (II) (1920 – 1 August 2005); reigned 1982–200 |
Simeon of Bulgaria | ... f heirs and princes in several Christian royal houses, such as the cases of | or James Ogilvy |
Romanos Lekapenos | ... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral | , who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ... |
King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
George I | ... ious Stuart monarchs, chose to rely on a small committee of advisers. Under | even more power passed to this committee. It now began to meet in the abse ... |
Stephen Báthory | ... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King | , suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ... |
Germanicus | ... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and general | as colouring the star red, though acknowledging that none of the latter th ... |
Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu | In Portugal, forks began being used with | , king Manuel I of Portugal's mother. That happened around 1450. Still for ... |
Charles the Bold | ... t. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by | of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from th ... |
Henry VIII | ... ority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under | and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I |
Frederick II | ... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, King | announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ... |
Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
Moctezuma II | ... nd returned in a few months, bearing reports of the wealth and splendour of | 's empire |
David | gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan. After | ha |
King James | ... r in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: " | having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with ... |
James I of Aragon | ... December 31, 1229, after three months of siege, the city was reconquered by | and was renamed Palma de Mallorca. In addition to being kept as capital of ... |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | ... tional and familial reasons. Anne was advised (and many said controlled) by | , who was a champion of Whig causes. In 1706, the Duchess of Marlborough f ... |
Mahmud of Ghazni | ... to its end in December 1004. Ibn Sina seems to have declined the offers of | , and proceeded westwards to Urgench in modern Turkmenistan, where the viz ... |
Napoleon | After | imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1 ... |
Agamemnon | ... boy. Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, | and Menelaus |
Oscar II | ... an). Due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905, | had to change his motto |
Saladin | ... power in Arabic poetry, and was according to legend the personal emblem of | . The specific depiction of Golden Eagle legendarily considered to be Sala ... |
Philip the Good | ... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, | , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ... |
William Marshall | ... ted to a "Count William", who may have been either William of Mandeville or | . However, it has also been suggested that Count William may refer to Will ... |
Edwin | ... was defeated and killed by Rædwald of East Anglia (who had given refuge to | , son of Ælle, king of Deira) around the year 616. Edwin then became king. ... |
Edward VI | ... the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry VIII's son and successor, the young | , continued with further religious reforms but his early death in 1553 pre ... |
Augustus | ... ond century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of | ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopag ... |
Augustus | ... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from | to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ... |
Simeon I of Bulgaria | ... f the regency for the young emperor, and as such had to face the advance of | on Constantinople. Nicholas negotiated a peaceful settlement, crowned Sime ... |
George III | ... d Hanover. The Convention also meant the disbanding of the army of Hanover. | did not recognize the Convention of the Elbe. As a result of this, a great ... |
Aepytus | #A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised by | of Arcadia and became the mother of Iamus by Apollo. When Aepytus discover ... |
Alexander III | ... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsar | and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ... |
Eglon | ... om which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put | king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is r ... |
Muhammad | ... (Arabic for "full moon"), after the Battle of Badr, in which Muslims under | defeated the Quraish tribe of Mecca |
Abdullah | ## | (born August 1922); current king, since 200 |
Trajan | ... val of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from Augustus to | , which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Africanus. Th ... |
Liu Yu | The dynasty was founded by | 劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ... |
Æthelfrith | Ida’s grandson, | (Æðelfriþ), united Deira with his own kingdom by force around the year 604 ... |
Selim I | ... n of the Ottoman Empire along the southern Mediterranean coast under sultan | coincided with the establishment of Inquisition commissions by the Reyes C ... |
Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
Sigismund III | ... ry, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings | and Władysław IV. The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the ... |
Nicolae Ceauşescu | ... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, | of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution) |
Edward IV | ... or Woodville), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King | consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1 ... |
Aegisthus | ... e a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus. However, when | was first born, he was abandoned by his mother who was ashamed of her ince ... |
Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
Mary | ... a succession crisis. He was wary of allowing his Catholic elder half-sister | to succeed, and therefore drew up a will designating Lady Jane Grey as his ... |
Romanos I | ... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new Emperor | Lekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ... |
Flavius Constantius | In early 288, Maximian appointed his praetorian prefect | , husband of Maximian's daughter Theodora, to lead a campaign against Cara ... |
Liu Shao | ... which at least partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include | , Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emper ... |
King | ... oirs of Saint-Simon: "King James having his Queen on his right hand and the | on his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous f ... |
Peleus | ... ds and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of | and Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles). Only Eris, goddess of disco ... |
Queen Victoria | ... m and Hanover ended as William IV's heir in the United Kingdom was female ( | ). According to Salic Law Hanover could only be inherited by males. As a c ... |
King Charles I | ... n applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute | . In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv ... |
Jean-Jacques Dessalines | ... ndence after the French transported Louverture to France. The native leader | – long an ally and general of Toussaint Louverture, brilliant strategist a ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by | , in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Lothair II | ... ll a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his father, | , went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which ... |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Amel-Marduk | ... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor | (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ... |
Sarah Ferguson | Prince Andrew married | at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him D ... |
Jean-Bédel Bokassa | ... ally profited. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler, | ; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing. H ... |
Zahir Shah | ... 924. The military of Afghanistan was reconstructed and improved during King | 's reign, which reached a strength of 70,000 in 1933. Following the Second ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death. | appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ... |
Gunderic | ... ozen, to invade Gaul, which they devastated terribly. Under Godigisel's son | , the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine |
Henry VIII's | ... ishment except death, without being bound by normal court procedure. During | reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact l ... |
Leo VI the Wise | ... e of contents of another five books, continuing the history to the death of | in 911, also exists, but whether the books were ever actually written is d ... |
Philip II | ... the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when the city was destroyed by a fire and | , born here, moved the capital to Madrid, starting a period of decadence f ... |
Emperor Gong of Jin | ... nal invasion, though, but because the general Liu Yu seized the throne from | , becoming Emperor Wu of Liu Song (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the South ... |
Vitellius | ... AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and | |
Arthur, Prince of Wales | ... man who sat on the commissions in the Welsh Marches and clerk controller to | , at Ludlow Castle. Thomas More, writing when she was still alive, but old ... |
Josiah | Zedekiah was the third son of | , and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he w ... |
Napoleon | ... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed by | upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, | , Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ... |
Emperor Xiaowu | ... east partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, | , Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was espe ... |
Władysław IV | ... dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and | . The Commonwealth fought wars with Russia, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire ... |
Alexander the Great | Ashkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of | , Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ... |
David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
Chagatai | ... s Khan and the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son, | and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. Timur took over the area in 1369 ... |
Achilles | ... were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of | ). Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. She was annoyed at this ... |
William IV's | In 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended as | heir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ... |
Philip III | ... him. It was made the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by | . The city was again damaged by a flood of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers |
King Charles II | ... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to | , purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ... |
Aurelian | ... , Constantine had reoccupied most of the long-lost province of Dacia, which | had been forced to abandon in 271. At the time of his death, he was planni ... |
James II of Majorca | ... joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, together with Perpignan. His son, | , championed the construction of statues and monuments in the city: Bellve ... |
Henry VIII | ... agued previous monarchs came to an end. The reign of the second Tudor king, | , was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with ... |
Charles VI | ... t part in the affairs of France, where his sister Isabella had married King | . About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, Henr ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... o was the nation's first "equal" treaty with any country; which overshadows | 's pre-Edo period initiatives which sought to establish official relations ... |
Og | In a similar way the Israelites took the country of | , and these two victories gave them possession of the complete country eas ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... of France's internal history. His demonstration that letters attributed to | were not genuine roused much interest in France. It was of the greatest im ... |
Og | ... bedstead (translated as "sarcophagus" in NIV Archaeological Study Bible) of | wa |
Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
Ernest Augustus | ... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother, | , and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ... |
Frederick III | ... supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector | was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ru ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... age proper in Scotland is generally considered to be in 1266. In 1263, King | , in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast ... |
Puyi | ... y 1932, and renamed to Manchukuo. The Japanese military commander appointed | as regent (reign name Datong) for the time being and would become Emperor ... |
Emperor Qianfei | ... ed to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, | , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, m ... |
Sangara | ... hat Shamgar may actually have been a Hittite, a similar name occurring with | , a Hittite king of Carchemish; it is also the case that Anath is the name ... |
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting | , and the Catholic League against the Protestants--to the tune of a millio ... |
Duke of Gloucester | ... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the | became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ids. Seleucus invaded India (modern Punjab Pakistan) in 305 BC, confronting | (Sandrokottos), founder of the Maurya empire. It is said that Chandragupta ... |
Malcolm II | ... ven consecutive monarchs were either murdered or killed in battle. In 1005, | ascended the throne having killed many rivals. He continued to ruthlessly ... |
Strymon | #A daughter of | and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epida ... |
Carloman II | ... rer, Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, | and Louis III, ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the ... |
Sarpedon | ... d. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and | , the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworld when they di ... |
Engelberga | ... joint emperor at Rome by Pope Leo IV, and soon afterwards, in 851, married | and undertook the independent government of Italy. He marched into the sou ... |
Hussein Shah of Johor | ... of territories extending from Lingga and Johor to Mount Muar". This man was | , who, although having had no previous contact with the British, had certa ... |
Luise of Prussia | ... composer, writing an operetta called Die Maske and sending a copy to Queen | . The official reply advised to him to write to the director of the Royal ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... ents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard ( | series) |
Salome Alexandra | Alexander was followed by his wife, | , who reigned from 76–67 BCE. She was the only regnant Jewish Queen. Durin ... |
Muhammad | ... d pubic hair is a hygienic practice which was taught by the Islamic prophet | and which was enumerated as having been part of practices conforming to ma ... |
Antigonus II Gonatas | ... onsisting of nearly all of the Asian portions of the Empire, but faced with | in Macedonia and Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Egypt, he proved unable to pic ... |
Acastus | ... d Amythaon. He also had several daughters, namely Hippolyte, future wife of | (otherwise known as Astydameia); Myrina, who married Thoas; and an unnamed ... |
Alfonso VIII | ... grew rapidly, thanks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings | and Alfonso X, as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconq ... |
Ptolemy II Philadelphus | ... ortions of the Empire, but faced with Antigonus II Gonatas in Macedonia and | in Egypt, he proved unable to pick up where his father had left off in con ... |
Edward III | ... l lion was, according to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "said to have been granted by | ". By the 19th century the city corporation had added supporters, two ange ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair. When | abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes ... |
Aleus | ... nt Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by | , Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric an ... |
Valentinian III | Emperor | sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ... |
Duncan I | ... nate opposition, and when he died in 1034 he was succeeded by his grandson, | , instead of a cousin, as had been usual. In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat ... |
Emperor of China | ... become Emperor of Manchukuo but that he could not reign using the title of | . Manchukuo was proclaimed a monarchy on 1 March 1934, with Puyi assuming ... |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... against the Protestants--to the tune of a million gold ducats)--as well as | , King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire. ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... rder of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor of | and General of the Frontier of Portugal. Pedro de Alvarado's mother was Di ... |
Sparta | In | , Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical ... |
Charlemagne | ... ty over much of central Italy, thus estabilishing the Papal States. In 800, | was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope in Saint Peter's ... |
Alfonso X | ... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and | , as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista |
Frederick William I | ... East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions. Crown Prince | led the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, his nephew | wrote the satire Symposium, or the Saturnalia, which denigrated Constantin ... |
Demetrius III Eucaerus | ... cording to Josephus, following a six-year civil war involving Seleucid king | , Hasmonean ruler Alexander Jannaeus crucified 800 Jewish rebels in Jerusa ... |
Minos | ... cluding Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: | , Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of ... |
Emperor Ming | ... ry revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, | , and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a lar ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... E, Alexander the Great's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by | and extended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom fou ... |
Afonso VI of Portugal | ... n was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon by which, on January 1, 1668, King | formally ceded Ceuta to Carlos II of Spain. However, the originally Portug ... |
Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
Louis III | ... on, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, Carloman II and | , ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the two kingdoms ... |
Aristobulus I | ... s wife succeed him as head of the government, with his eldest of five sons, | , becoming only the high-priest. Aristobulus was the first Hasmonean to ta ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1859 Cunard was created a baronet by | |
Cleopatra VII | ... fell in 63 BC, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Queen | used Ashkelon as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled he ... |
King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
Phocas | ... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of | |
Prince Faisal | His last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line | , who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite! |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... self the basis for the story: when she found out about Edward's marriage to | in 1464, Cecily flew into a rage. Mancini reported that the Duchess, in he ... |
Helena Lekapene | ... upplanted in 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughter | to Constantine VII and finally advanced to the imperial throne in 920. The ... |
Philip II | ... petitions for the young”. Arrow firing machines in action are reported from | 's siege of Perinth (Thrace) in 340 BC. At the same time, Greek fortificat ... |
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy | He was married to Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of | and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giova ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | Bishop Brynjólfur sent the Codex Regius as a present to King | , hence the name Codex Regius. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Li ... |
Gustav Vasa | ... stemming from the early 16th century. All regents of Sweden, beginning with | , have had their own motto during their respective periods of reign. The S ... |
Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
James III of Scotland | ... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to | . Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ... |
David | ... en each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king | . Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of his family line ... |
King Charles I | ... ther groups whose adherents believed the English Reformation was in danger. | had ascended the throne in 1624, and he had married a Roman Catholic. Char ... |
Emperor Houfei | ... rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and | . Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a large number of his bro ... |
Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
Leopold I | ... masters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor | in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to ... |
Sparta | ... going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites. At | , however, youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in r ... |
Menelik II | ... mpress Taytu Betul and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor | . The name of the city (ኣዲስ ኣበባ) was taken from parts of the city called h ... |
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | ... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and | . They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ... |
Cyrus the Great | Maka was an important early eastern satrapy of | , founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Makra corresponds to modern day Bahrai ... |
George III | ... esponsible for Lady Sarah Lennox's embarrassing rejection by the young King | , as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir Charles Bunbury soon afterward ... |
Saladin | ... d by his fellow crusaders, and acted as Richard’s principal negotiator with | for a peace treaty. After the conclusion of the treaty with Saladin, Walte ... |
Rhadamanthus | ... Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, | , and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworl ... |
Erichthonius | ## | #Anticlei |
Charlemagne | ... carried the name. Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court of | to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal. Constantine acqu ... |
Njörðr | ... gave dwelling places to the temple priests." Snorri adds that, after this, | dwelt in Nóatún, Freyr dwelt in Uppsala, Heimdall at Himinbjörg, Thor at Þ ... |
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | From | , gun-founders, gold- and silversmiths and (Italian) master builders were ... |
George II | ... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King | , who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ... |
Hermeric | ... ere considered foederati and founded the Suebi Kingdom of Gallaecia. There, | swore fealty to the Emperor in 410. Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Br ... |
Frederick II | ... city, of the Holy Roman Empire. However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor | against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city ... |
John of Gaunt | ... mily, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of | 's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... from the throne and replaced by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter | later became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Ti ... |
Shah Jahan | In 1622, Khurram ( | ), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, had murdered Khusrau in a conspiracy ... |
Gratian | ... of Lucca and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons | ;excluded it from his Decretum, but it was soon added to it as Palea; the ... |
Rehoboam | E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the | article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an int ... |
Septimius Severus | The Roman Emperor | was a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ... |
Pol Pot | ... line, anti-Vietnamese, but also anti-monarchist, members of the CPK, led by | |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... ave been William VII of Aquitaine), she may have previously been married to | . They had two daughters, Agnes, d.after1110; m.1080 Ct Friedrich von Luet ... |
Pelias | #A daughter of | , given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of Cephalus and a king of Phoci ... |
Edgar of Scotland | ... odred Crovan was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King | agreed a treaty. The islands would be controlled by Norway, but mainland t ... |
Bernabò Visconti | ... 's uncle Stephen II, who forged an alliance with the powerful Lord of Milan | to invade Tyrol, and the House of Habsburg. Stephen finally renounced Tyro ... |
Richard, Duke of York | ... House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was | . Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son Edward ... |
Charles II | After the Restoration, King | and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ... |
Claudius | ... st extent; the most notable being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor | (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1s ... |
Achilles | ... in some versions of the story on the pretense that she was to be married to | ). Iphigenia accepted her father's choice and was honored to be a part of ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... as far as India, where after two years of war he reached an agreement with | , in which he exchanged his eastern territories for a considerable force o ... |
Pope John Paul II | In Solicitudo Rei Socialis, a major document of Catholic Social Teaching, | identifies the concept of solidarity with the poor and marginalized as a c ... |
King Edward VII | ... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland of | his consort Alexandra of Denmark |
Rudolph of Auxerre | ... ed by Guy III of Spoleto, who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by | , who had been elected king in the south of Lotharingia, in Transjurane Bu ... |
Jeroboam | According to , Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of | , and reigned for three years |
Severus | ... not entirely to Maximian's liking: perhaps because of Galerius' influence, | and Maximinus were appointed Caesar, thus excluding Maxentius. Both the ne ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference. It was a derogatory term used by | , dismissing the Cambodian leftists who had been organizing pro-independen ... |
Seyyedeh Khatun | ... the last Buwayhid emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother ( | ). About thirty of Ibn Sina's shorter works are said to have been composed ... |
Bolesław III | ... with the ecclesiastical authority, and was expelled from the country. After | divided the country among his sons, internal fragmentation eroded the init ... |
Cadmus | ... unding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by | , for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung ... |
Louis XVI | ... 9 April 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of | , a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789 |
Godigisel | ... 00 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals, under king | , along with their allies (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians) move ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
Henry VI | ... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant son | on the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ... |
Godred Crovan | ... Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde. In 1095, the King of Mann and the Isles | was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King Edgar of Sc ... |
Sparta | According to Pausanias, local inhabitants of Therapne, | , recognized Thero "feral, savage" as a nurse of Ares |
Hammurabi | ... d Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with | , who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, a ... |
Cephalus | #A daughter of Pelias, given by Jason in marriage to Canes, son of | and a king of Phocis |
King Edward VII | | granted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ... |
Edward V of England | ... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future | in his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ... |
Decius | ... Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by Roman Emperor | in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 479, the ... |
Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
Emperor John VIII | In 1428 Gemistos was consulted by | on the issue of unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and advised that bo ... |
Reginar | ... icitur: "duke of the kingdom that many call Lothair's". He was succeeded by | , who led the nobility in electing Charles the Simple of West Francia king ... |
Francis II of the Two Sicilies | When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 (see | ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the isla ... |
Charlemagne | ... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to | |
Herod | According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king | , there was "a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia", who ... |
Cycnus | There are accounts of a son of Ares, | (Κύκνος) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a templ ... |
Demetrius II Nicator | In 147 BCE, | , a son of Demetrius I Soter, claimed Balas' throne. The governor of Coele ... |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
Hiero II | ... ince Lilybaeum remained in Roman hands. Hannibal was aided by the fact that | , the old tyrant of Syracuse and a staunch Roman ally, had died and his su ... |
Cassander | ... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding | , his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ... |
Charles I | A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's | persecuted religious dissenters. Waves of repression led to the migration ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... t he could strike hard when necessary; and his action over the execution of | , proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Qu ... |
Henry V | ... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future | . Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ... |
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... tered Dayuan (Fergana), Kangju (Sogdiana), and Daxia (Bactria, formerly the | ); he also gathered information on Shendu (Indus River valley of North Ind ... |
Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
Cleopatra Thea | ... . The victorious Alexander Balas was given the further honor of marriage to | , daughter of his allies Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. Jonathan was invited ... |
Bessus | After killing Darius, | took the regal name Artaxerxes V and began calling himself the King of Asi ... |
Charlemagne | ... came part of the semifeudal Frankish Empire (which was ruled by the emperor | from 771 to 814), due to the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the ... |
Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
James II | After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor | visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ... |
Maria Leopoldina | ... he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona | and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza. His fa ... |
Maximilian I | ... e Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor | |
The Queen | Her Majesty | visited on |
Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
Queen Ranavalona | ... ing adventurer. It notes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, with | of Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Uni ... |
Alfred the Great | ... Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People attributed to | where the Jutes (iutarum, iutis) once are rendered as gēata (genitive) and ... |
king | ... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the | . The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ... |
Criasus | ... era, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Piras, Epidaurus and | |
Queen Elizabeth | ... and pets. A Lakeland resident who mourned the passing of the swans wrote to | . The royal family allowed the capture of two of the royal swans, and the ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... 40, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from | . By that time, the town was mainly known for its able craftsmen: ceramist ... |
Hugh Capet | ... attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) by supporting | (987–996). Capet became King of France, ending the Carolingian line of Kin ... |
Prince of Wales | Edward IV's eldest son was invested with the title of | at the age of seven months. At the age of three, he was sent by his father ... |
Hieronymus | ... old tyrant of Syracuse and a staunch Roman ally, had died and his successor | was discontented with his position in the Roman alliance. Hannibal dispatc ... |
William of Orange | ... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by | on November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ... |
Mubarak Al-Sabah | ... raids in the Najd. He also attended the daily majlis of the emir of Kuwait, | , from whom he learned the art of statecraft |
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia | ... im a daughter named Anna Petrovna in December 1757 (not to be confused with | , the daughter of Peter I's second marriage) |
Meñli I Giray | ... Empire, Ivan's relations were pacific and even amicable. The Crimean Khan, | , helped him against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and facilitated the open ... |
Antiochus I Soter | His son and successor, | , was left with an enormous realm consisting of nearly all of the Asian po ... |
Charles V | ... ance. The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by | at the (1525) |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
Louis the German | ... ry outside Italy, aroused his discontent, and in 857 he allied himself with | against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King Charles the ... |
Caesar | ... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between | and Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ... |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... in his own hands. In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousin | seized power. Richard was deposed, imprisoned, and eventually murdered, pr ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... e Spanish ambassador to England, who had secured a copy and passed it on to | ), drawn circa 1607 by the Jamestown settler Francis Nelson, also gives cr ... |
Somerled | ... m of Man and the Isles", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of | , a Gaelic speaker, who was styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was ... |
Emperor Shōmu | In 744, Naniwa once again became the capital by order of | . Naniwa ceased to be the capital in 745, when the Imperial Court moved ba ... |
Bảo Đại | ... ệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor | , eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. Presid ... |
David I | ... augurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sons Alexander I and | . Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot and his su ... |
Alexander Jannaeus | ... sephus was a descendant of the High Priest Jonathon. Jonathon may have been | , the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed from 103 BC-76 BC. Born ... |
Ferdinand II | ... onarchs, the recently enthroned Isabella I Queen of Castile and her husband | King of Aragon. Although Columbus had presented his navigational plan to t ... |
Deborah | ... el had originally been allocated to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess | , Bethel is described as being in the land of the Ephraim. Some twenty yea ... |
Alexander the Great | ... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by | , who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ... |
John Paul II | ... he limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and | continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of ove ... |
Taran | Those five novels detail the adventures of a young man named | , who dreams of being a sword-bearing hero but has only the title Assistan ... |
Lothair of France | ... olitics of his time. In 985, with the support of his archbishop, he opposed | 's (954–986) attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) ... |
Charles | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: | , Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ... |
Odin | ... sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god | |
William the Conqueror | ... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. | ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund | ... ismund was christened as the namesake of his mother's maternal grandfather, | , who had died in 1437 |
Gilbert | ... d him by granting him the title margrave. Reginar was succeeded by his son, | , who used the title dux Lotharingiae: "duke of Lotharingia". When the Wes ... |
Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
Alfred the Great | ... the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw. He is mainly known for his conflict with | |
Ellac | His sons | (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and Ernakh fought over the division ... |
Cadmus | ... n, the "sun-red" Phoenix. It is generally agreed that she had two brothers, | , who brought the alphabet to mainland Greece, and Cilix who gave his name ... |
Roman Emperor | ... uries, after Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the " | " on December 25, 800, an act which eventually led to the formation of the ... |
William of Orange | ... alace's antiquated state was addressed. England had two new joint monarchs, | and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II. Within months of th ... |
Vasily III | Intermittently at war with | of Muscovy, starting in 1507 (before his army was fully under his command) ... |
Sthenelus | ... ughter of Iphis or Phylax and wife of Capaneus, with whom she gave birth to | . Her husband was killed by a lightning bolt at the siege of Thebes and sh ... |
Girolamo Savonarola | ... ther held in place by hand or by exerting pressure on the nose (pince-nez). | suggested that eyepieces could be held in place by a ribbon passed over th ... |
Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
Mary II | ... t monarchs, William of Orange and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen | . Within months of their accession they embarked on a massive rebuilding p ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | ... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming | (reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period |
Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
Philip V | ... duced to revolt against Roman political control, while the Macedonian king, | pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the First Macedonian War ... |
Richard III | ... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother | . Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ... |
Isaac I Komnenos | ... tine IX and again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform under | only delaying the decay of the Byzantine military. It was under Constantin ... |
Philip II | ... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces by | due to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ... |
Daumantas | ... and was assassinated in 1263 by his nephew Treniota and another rival, Duke | . His three immediate successors were assassinated as well. The disorder w ... |
Charles the Bald | ... s the German against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King | . But after Louis had secured the election of Pope Nicholas I in 858, he b ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | When Otto II became | in 973 (he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967), he appointed Gerbert the ... |
Theodore II | ... rch of Constantinople and Plethon's enemy). He was made chief magistrate by | |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... pope Gregory IX who had several times mediated between the Lombards and the | Frederick II reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending part ... |
Saul | ... ars in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of David and | 's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an is conc ... |
Cleopatra Thea | ... remained sole ruler of the Seleucid Empire and became the second husband of | |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | ... xpanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a concern that the Welsh lord | would strike back across the border. In 1196, Walter quickly suppressed a ... |
Tewodros II | ... the United Kingdom presented Ras Tafari with the imperial crown of Emperor | for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken by Robert ... |
Henry VII of England | ... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of | . The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ... |
King Charles I | ... setts Bay Company in 1628, he became involved in 1629 when the anti-Puritan | began a crackdown on Nonconformist religious thought. In October 1629 he w ... |
Ernakh | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and | fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings wo ... |
Greco-Bactrian | In the Indo-Greek and | kingdoms, Greco-Buddhism was spreading and Greek missionaries would play a ... |
Roman Emperor | ... es that these Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by | Decius in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 47 ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... orwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one from | in 1194. Following a riot in the city in 1274, Norwich has the distinction ... |
Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with | , the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ... |
Paul VI | ... abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes | and John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular chu ... |
Rudolph | ... tried to swap Lotharingian allegiance to the West Franks, since their king, | , was weak and would interfere less in aristocratic matters. In 939 Henry' ... |
Mieszko I of Poland | ... es, the Dziadoszanie and the Trzebowianie, whose lands were subdued by King | about 990. It is unclear which of the two tribes, if either, founded the t ... |
Ashoka | Emperor | the Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th century | removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ... |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married | , the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ... |
Cleopatra VII | ... after betraying Octavian in Sicily. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover, | . Mark Antony's affair with Cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since ... |
Henry II | Norwich received a royal charter from | in 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194. Following a r ... |
James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
Jeroboam | ... by bringing Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against King | of Israel in the mountains of Ephraim. gives the sizes of the two armies a ... |
David | ... liath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of | and Saul's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an ... |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... of had been lost to the empire. It took a decade of internal strife before | (1081 to 1118) restored stability to the empire. Historian Thomas Asbridge ... |
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ts marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 document. By the 13th century, | and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, John the B ... |
Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
Dengizich | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), | , and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which va ... |
Edward IV | ... e of York. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son | led the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The Wars of the Roses, nevertheless, ... |
Diodotus Tryphon | ... ander Balas and Cleopatra Thea. He was three years old at most, but general | used him to advance his own designs on the throne. In the face of this new ... |
Greco-Bactrian kingdom | ... of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new | . Some eastern parts of the country were controlled by the Indian Maurya E ... |
Edward | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne, Andrew and | . Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Philip and El ... |
King Charles I | ... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against | and his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ... |
Akbar | ... kbar had to hastily return to Agra and restore order. There was a time when | thought of putting his eldest grandson Khusrau Mirza on the throne instead ... |
Louis XVI of France | ... cant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of King | in 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for "crimes of tyranny" against ... |
Pedro I | Through his father, Emperor | , he was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portug ... |
Diocletian | ... om 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, | , whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian e ... |
Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | ... chy-era identity documents. During the 2007 presidential election, however, | was polled on the issue and stated that he favoured the collection of data ... |
Tutankhamun | ... oduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of | " in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most successful in British h ... |
Louis XIII | | conferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at P ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... the Goths. According to the historian Eutropius, the forces of the Emperor | battled against the Marcomannic confederation for three years at the fortr ... |
Freeway Face-Off | ... ay Series" also inspired the official name of the regions' NHL rivalry: the | |
Jehoiakim | ... uch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of | , he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh H ... |
Al-Hakam II | ... ba to request a truce. Bishop Atto was part of the delegation that met with | of Cordoba, who received him with honor. Atto was mesmerized by the Arabic ... |
Orestes | ... , in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specifically | in describing the death of |
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) | ... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC, | invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ... |
Romanos IV Diogenes | ... ). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor | played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia an ... |
James III of Scotland | ... backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King | , to take the Scottish throne in 1482. Gloucester led an invasion of Scotl ... |
David I | ... -Norman monastic architecture. The Abbey built between 1128 and 1150, under | was a reconstruction of the Benedictine chapel dedicated to the Holy Trini ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... his mother, but he had good relations with the Papacy and, for a time, the | |
George V | ... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King | of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ... |
Neleus | ... up by a stripling, the youngest in his family (Nestor is the twelfth son of | , David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse). In each case an older and mor ... |
Cyrus the Younger | ... ap Tissaphernes was lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of | . Pliny tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the ... |
Louis | For some years after Louis' death in 1294 his sons Rudolph I and | , afterwards the emperor Louis IV, ruled their duchy in common; but as the ... |
Najibullah | ... d Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces. After President | 's resignation in 1992 and the end of Soviet support, the military dissolv ... |
Edward II | ... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor, | , who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ... |
Tokugawa shogunate | During the years of the | (1601–1868), the rector of Edo’s Confucian Academy, the Shōhei-kō (afterwa ... |
Charles I | ... e on the North wall. A brass to Veare Jenyns (1644) relates to the Court of | , while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with Sarah, Duch ... |
Edward IV | ... enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King | 's court. William held the office of comptroller of the household from 147 ... |
Basil I | ... o the lack of a fleet. So in 869 he made alliance with the eastern emperor, | , who sent him ships to assist in the capture of Bari, capital of a local ... |
Maria of Tver | Ivan's son with | , Ivan the Young, died in 1490, leaving from his marriage with Helen of Mo ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... ix cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons; however, | began to exceed the overall limit of 70, and this continued under his succ ... |
Huan Xuan | ... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress | 's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ... |
Augustus | ... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Under | the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ... |
Theodosius I | ... nded the legions attention on several occasions. After the death of Emperor | (395), the Empire was divided into an Eastern and a Western Roman Empire. ... |
George of Poděbrady | Pope Paul rejected King | of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in fa ... |
Sparta | ... rotector of not only Athens but also of many other cities, including Argos, | , Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa |
Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... e after her father refused him her hand, so Tadg appealed to the High King, | , who outlawed him. The Battle of Cnucha was fought between Conn and Cumha ... |
Ottokar II of Bohemia | ... in the 13th century, Austria came briefly under the rule of the Czech King | . Contesting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor, Ottokar was ... |
Anne | Philip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, | , Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ... |
Tu'i Kanokupolu | ... was founded in the 10th century AD and expanded between 1200 and 1500. The | is the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600. George Tupou II of Tonga ... |
Palpatine | ... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel, | 's clones and lead the team to other battles |
King Kamehameha III | ... waiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii. | established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in 1839 and 1840 |
Pope John Paul II | ... sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese. On December 13, 2002 | accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administ ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ther argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the | ; Japanese language schools, furthermore, according to the manifesto, were ... |
Antiochus VI Dionysus | ... , a new claimant to the Seleucid throne appeared in the person of the young | , son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea. He was three years old at mos ... |
Emperor | ... f the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the | Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD ... |
George Tupou II of Tonga | ... 1500. The Tu'i Kanokupolu is the title held by Tongan monarchs since 1600. | became the first king of Tonga in 1893 |
Jeconiah | ... zzar II, king of Babylon, after a siege of Jerusalem to succeed his nephew, | , who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten da ... |
Zahir Shah | ... g Amanullah Khan's rule in the early 20th century, and upgraded during King | 's forty year rule. From 1978 to 1992, the Soviet-backed Afghan army fough ... |
Ladislaus IV of Hungary | ... defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King | |
Diomedes | ... hrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans. During the war, | fought with and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called fo ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... aving the Crown to his nine-year-old son Henry III. Later in Henry's reign, | led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. The ... |
Áed mac Boanta | ... king of the Picts, his brother Bran and the king of the Scots of Dál Riata, | , along with many members of the Pictish aristocracy in battle. The sophis ... |
Seru Epenisa Cakobau | From the 1850s | tried to unite the Fijian Islands, and became the first Tui Viti, or king ... |
Louis Bonaparte | ... were killed, over 2000 were injured and some 220 homes were destroyed. King | personally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. Although ... |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough | ... of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with | . Judge John Heath, after whom Judge Heath Lane was named, is also buried ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... e region. Later counts would hold much of their territory directly from the | . The Meinhardinger family, originating in Gorizia, held not only Tyrol an ... |
John of Austria | ... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother, | ) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | Edward IV had ten legitimate children by | , seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ... |
Edward VI | ... any historic events. In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future | , was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there ... |
Alexios Komnenos | ... urks ransomed him back to his wife, and it was not before the young general | pursued him that he was captured. These events all interacted to create a ... |
Orestes | Goaded by his sister Electra, | swore revenge. He knew it was his duty to avenge his father's death, but s ... |
Sauron | ... his previous gains and exploited the disarray of the Noldor. From Angband, | was sent in command of a great force of Orc-hosts, Werewolves, and Wolves ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in northern Germany (see Polabian Slavs). For decades they were allies of | in his wars against Germanic Saxons and Slavic Veleti. In 798 the Obodrite ... |
Anacaona | ... sabela. One of the earliest leaders to fight off Spanish conquest was Queen | , a princess of Xaragua who married Caonabo, the cacique of Maguana. The c ... |
Princess George of Greece | ... led in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his aunt, | |
Prince Charles | ... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". | wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ... |
Emperor Kimmei | ... ficient material available for further verification and study. The reign of | (509–571), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of ... |
Herod | ... tion recounts that, at the time of the massacre of the Innocents, when King | ordered the slaughter of all males under the age of two in an attempt to p ... |
Mithridates I of Parthia | ... Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under | in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
Brian Boru | ... on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king | 's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him. Irish and Viking literat ... |
Louis the German | ... ermanic (primarily Bavarian) ascendancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of | (804-876). In 887 Arnulf of Carinthia (850-899), a bastard grandson of Lou ... |
David | ... hence reflecting the changing tribal boundaries. claims that by the time of | , the town was under the control of Philistines, but subsequently was give ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... that Marie de France was known at the court of King Henry II and his wife, | . A contemporary of Marie, the English poet Denis Piramus, mentions in his ... |
Peisistratus | ... sthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of | , whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes' constitution relatively peacefull ... |
George V | ... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of | . He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ... |
Maria of Tver | ... the family circumstances of Ivan III. After the death of his first consort, | (1467), at the suggestion of Pope Paul II (1469), who hoped thereby to bin ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... d Mary, the remaining children of Henry VIII, from the throne, in favour of | .) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: "Seeing ... |
King of Kings | ... ium Dei/Domini) the Divine is held to have a superior imperium, as ultimate | , above all earthly powers. Whenever a society accepts this Divine will to ... |
King William III | William Prince of Orange (afterwards | ) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ... |
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | ... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When | , and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ... |
Alp Arslan | ... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led by | on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turke ... |
Valens | ... this time, the Hasdingi had already been Christianized. During the Emperor | 's reign (364–78) the Vandals accepted, much like the Goths earlier, Arian ... |
Emperor Wu of Liang | ... pass power of rule onto their heirs to continue their dynasty successfully. | (502–549 AD), however, was the most notable ruler of his age, being a patr ... |
Jehoahaz | ... was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he was the brother of | (, , , ) |
John of Bohemia | ... ts city rights about 1295. In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King | , who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 i ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ow. The even was viewed by an audience of about 3.5 million. The funeral of | , had taken place on the same day, and the Frenchman therefore dedicated " ... |
Kamehameha I | ... nai to their own devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until King | or Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao took control, slaughtering people on every part ... |
Richard II | ... ses. In 1377 Edward III died, leaving the Crown to his 10-year-old grandson | . Like many of his predecessors, Richard II conflicted with the nobles by ... |
Titus | ... after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general | (see Dating of the Gospel of Mark) |
Arnulf of Carinthia | ... ancy. In 843 it passed into the hands of Louis the German (804-876). In 887 | (850-899), a bastard grandson of Louis the German, assumed his title of Ki ... |
Emperor Kōtoku | In 645, | built his palace, the Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in Osaka, making this ... |
William of Orange | ... s Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on | . He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made cl ... |
Augustus | ... view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperor | in 9 sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Batt ... |
Henry II of England | ... welfth century; they are dedicated to a "noble king", usually assumed to be | , or possibly his eldest son, Henry the Young King. Another of her works, ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... s, which would have been the second-longest reign in Europe (behind that of | ), seventh-longest in the world, and the longest reign by a female monarch ... |
Samson | ... en of the mightiest, were removed by a touch of the fingers of this British | . |
Lysimachus | ... r of the city, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, | and Cassander (315 BC) against Antigonus. In 314 BC Antigonus invaded Phoe ... |
James II | ... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators against | in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ... |
Sun Quan | ... t the end of the 2nd century AD, paving the way for the Three Kingdoms era. | , the founder of the Kingdom of Wu, spent nearly twenty years subduing the ... |
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria | ... of Austria and was given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976 after the revolt of | |
Louis XI of France | ... political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, | — Edward was a popular and very able king. While he lacked foresight and ... |
Queen Mary I | ... rd VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that | (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King Philip II of Spain to spend ... |
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James I | ... -twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as | of the House of Stuart |
Queen Olga of Greece | ... Sophie. He was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Church. His godparents were | and the Mayor of Corfu |
Charles IV | ... El Kébir. Both cities were held until 1792, when they were sold by the king | to the Bey of Algiers |
Edward III | ... deposed and then murdered by his wife Isabella. His 14-year-old son became | . Edward III claimed the French Crown, setting off the Hundred Years' War ... |
Edward IV | ... of only two courtiers to become Knight of the Garter in the second reign of | . Sir William Parr could claim royal descent through King John of England, ... |
Cormac mac Airt | ... d and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King | promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinn ... |
the emperor | ... ulfilling Stephen's request for a crown without the support and approval of | . |
John of England | ... le, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King | in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was ... |
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria | ... conveyed. An attempt supported by a wide coalition of parties, to establish | , as a Staatskommisar with dictatorial powers in 1932 to counter the Nazis ... |
Sparta | ... wed the treaty with the Roman Republic and exchanged friendly messages with | and other places. However, one should note that the documents referring to ... |
Rehoboam | ... ing an internal consistency that Thiele never resolved, as explained in the | article |
Tigranes the Great | ... ntinued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king | and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey |
Catherine of Aragon | ... e mainly owed his immunity. He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of | or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple ... |
Dyggvi | ... turluson, Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king | dies of sickness. A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the b ... |
Basil II | ... ed: Prince Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia, who had been awarded a Appanage by | . In 1478 he was pressured into giving Belozersk to Ivan who got all of Mi ... |
Henry the Young King | ... ng", usually assumed to be Henry II of England, or possibly his eldest son, | . Another of her works, the Fables, is dedicated to a "Count William", who ... |
Roman Emperor | Maximian (; c. 250 – c. July 310) was | from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... claration on Christian Education. It was promulgated on October 28, 1965 by | , following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,290 to 35 |
Charles I | King James was succeeded in 1625 by his son, the ill-fated | . For this king, Hampton Court was to become both his palace and his priso ... |
Emperor Wen of Sui | ... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
Trajan | ... being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor Claudius (47), and emperor | 's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1st and 2nd century, Roman ... |
King John II of Portugal | ... later India. In 1485, Christopher Columbus unsuccessfully tried to persuade | (João II) to sponsor an expedition to Asia, meant to be reached by sailing ... |
Henry II of England | ... the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with | over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers ... |
Elisabeth of Bavaria | ... uri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city of Corfu Greece, Empress of Austria | also known as Sissi built in 1890 a summer palace with Achilles as its cen ... |
Edward V of England | ... orge's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, | |
Jehoiachin | ... The Bablyonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of | and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year o ... |
Quintus Fabius Maximus | ... lect a dictator itself. As this was unconstitutional, the person appointed, | , was given the title of prodictator (acting dictator) although he held th ... |
Isabella | ... 322. Nevertheless, in 1327 Edward was deposed and then murdered by his wife | . His 14-year-old son became Edward III. Edward III claimed the French Cro ... |
Constans | ... dria, at a synod held in Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to | , Emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on wh ... |
Frederick II | ... g part in German affairs during the early years of the reign of the emperor | , and died (assassinated) at Kelheim in September 1231. His son Otto II, c ... |
Władysław Jagiełło | In 1392, the city received an important trade privilege from king | , and with the coming of the peace between Poland and Lithuania developed ... |
Valens | ... anaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid. The Emperor | and the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Atha ... |
Lady Elizabeth | ... assing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and | to the line of succession to the throne |
Pope John XXIII | On 15 December 1958, Luciani was appointed Bishop of Vittorio Veneto by | . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 December from ... |
John Hyrcanus | at:110 text: | gains full independence~and begins conquests, 110 BCE |
Charles of Héristal | ... e major cities of Tongeren, Maastricht, and Liège. Pippin was the father of | , victor of the decisive Battle of Tours that stopped the Arab-Muslim adva ... |
King of Scots | ... to Edgar shortly afterwards at Chester. Six kings in Britain, including the | and the King of Strathclyde, pledged their faith that they would be the ki ... |
Gratian | ... t after suffering many hardships. Valens (of the Eastern Empire) then asked | , the western emperor, for reinforcements to fight the Goths. Gratian sent ... |
Leo the Armenian | ... in the air, Michael preempted events by abdicating in favor of the general | and becoming a monk (under the name Athanasios). His sons were castrated a ... |
Lady Mary | ... l in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both | and Lady Elizabeth to the line of succession to the throne |
Pygmalion | ... s to steer her onto the path of morality. It constitutes a variation of the | story |
Abdur Rahman Khan | ... he border, launching the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The war's conclusion left | on the throne, and he agreed to let the British control Afghanistan's fore ... |
Umar | ... s varied from the election of Abu Bakr. On his deathbed, Abu Bakr appointed | as his successor without an election by the community of Believers. The oa ... |
Alexander Balas | at:153 text: | appoints Jonathan Maccabee~High Priest. After victory in 150 BCE, Jonathan ... |
William I, Count of Holland | ... nd took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, | . He besieged the stronghold and captured Ada |
Eumenes II of Pergamon | ... mies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC the Roman armies and those of | besieged and sacked it |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... than wait until the promulgation of the new constitution in 2008. His son, | , became King upon his abdication |
Nerva | ... time. The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor | at Frontinus's house at Formiae. He promises a work on Naval Tactics also; ... |
Charles the Simple | ... y against the Vikings. Nevertheless, in 911 the Viking leader Rollon forced | to sign the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, under which Charles gave Rouen ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | In 1613, his sister Elizabeth married | and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the Catholic Ferdinand II was elected kin ... |
Alp Arslan | ... d another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by | of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king | |
Jacques I | ... French revolution imposed on them". It was later renamed Port-au-Prince by | , emperor of Haïti. When Haiti was divided between a kingdom in the north ... |
Demetrius I Soter | at:160 text: | recalls garrisons~due to civil war against Alexander Balas,~increasing Has ... |
Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
William II | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: | , then Henry I. Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter M ... |
Konstantios Doukas | ... throne late in 1059, together with or shortly before his newly born brother | . When Constantine X died in 1067, Michael VII was 17 years old and should ... |
Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut | ... order to conquer the city since Leiden did not pay the new Count of Holland | , his niece and only daughter of Count William VI of Holland. The army was ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | Michael VII was the eldest son of Constantine X Doukas and | , and was born c. 1050, in Constantinople. He had been associated with his ... |
Albert, Duke of Prussia | The Polish wars against the Teutonic Knights ended in 1525, when | , their marshal (and Sigismund's nephew), converted to Lutheranism, secula ... |
King Edward III | ... rr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), descendant of | , and the former Maud Green (1492 –1531), daughter and co-heiress of Sir T ... |
King Henry I | ... nes, created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811, aide-de-camp to | , Privy Councilor, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 a ... |
Elizabeth | In 1613, his sister | married Frederick V, Elector Palatine and moved to Heidelberg. In 1617 the ... |
Charles XIV John | ... mself with the liberal opposition critical of the conservative rule of King | |
Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
Fidel Castro | ... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of | , Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ... |
William and Mary | ... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, when | came to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ... |
Xiao Fangzhi | ... hen Baxian and Wang Sengbian set up the last surviving son of Emperor Yuan, | , as Liang ruler, but he was not given the imperial title. After some defe ... |
Lysimachos of Thrace | ... sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC; later by | , the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC th ... |
Henry VII | ... sion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of | following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lincoln took the oath of allegianc ... |
Bona Sforza | ... humanism and the revival of classical antiquity. He and his third consort, | , daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissa ... |
Justinian II | In 710, | demanded in an iussio that Constantine appear before the emperor in Consta ... |
King James II | ... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as | and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland |
Margaret of York | ... Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister | . Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, th ... |
Domitian | ... rian as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor | was being called "dominus et deus" i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman ... |
Abdur Rahman | ... n agreement of 1873 in favour of the Afghan claim. Under the strong rule of | these outlying territories were closely welded to Kabul; but after the acc ... |
Charles Theodore | ... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector | became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ... |
Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
Saul | ... h Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of kings in | , under the inspiration of God |
Frederick Barbarossa | ... r the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army across Anatolia, but ... |
Richard The Lionheart | In 1194 King | returned from being held captive in Austria, and set about summoning a fle ... |
Alexander Jannaeus | at:103 shift: 15,-10 text: | , 103–7 |
Hyder Ali | ... sore for 300,000 rupees. After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759, | , Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto r ... |
Emperor Frederick I | The struggle for its possession continued until 1156, when | , in his desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Ba ... |
Liu Zixun | ... ce, to commit suicide. However, his claim to the throne was not accepted by | , one of his nephews, who then rose against him |
Dowager Empress Maria | ... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the | in the 1986 miniseries |
James II of Cyprus | ... ptember 1467. Five were candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively | , Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary a ... |
Valens | ... man Empire. Hoping that they would become farmers and soldiers, the emperor | allowed them to establish themselves in the Empire as allies (foederati). ... |
Mary Tudor | ... crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII and | |
Grace Kelly | ... f Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory, has just married pacifist Quaker Amy ( | ) and turned in his badge. He intends to become a storekeeper elsewhere. S ... |
Bolesław I Chrobry | ... the region of Upper Lusatia, it became part of the Kingdom of Poland during | 's conquest of Lusatia. After his death the town fell to the Margraviate o ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | In 1505, | Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz v ... |
Henry I | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: William II, then | . Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter Matilda (his on ... |
Alexander the Great | ... s a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of | . At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Me ... |
Alexander the Great | ... Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of | . The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most i ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ia Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son Joseph II, already | since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer herself, Maria Theresa always ... |
Henry VIII | ... loyalty to the crown, as it was a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon, | and Mary Tudor |
Belus on the Euphrates | ... climactic burst of syncretism, Dionysus identifies the Tyrian Heracles with | , Ammon in Libya, Apis by the Nile, Arabian Cronus, Assyrian Zeus, Serapis ... |
William I | ... liam V, Prince of Orange was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king | . This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of ar ... |
Trajan | ... to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus and Hadrian as the son of divus | . By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Domitian was being called "do ... |
King James VII | ... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting for | in 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ... |
Aristobulus I | at:104 text: | , 104–10 |
Conrad III | ... obtained the Duchy of Saxony in 1137. Alarmed at this prince's power, King | refused to allow two duchies to remain in the same hands, and declared Hen ... |
Louis XI of France | ... by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, | , Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able ... |
Edward VI | ... ven some who had the power to relax restrictions on the press at the end of | 's reign. The first edition may have had little or only partial commercial ... |
Fritigern | ... vehemently opposed, fearing that Christianity would destroy Gothic culture. | , his rival, was an Arian and had the favor of Valens, who shared his reli ... |
Lothair I | ... 29 September. Coins that bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor | , who died 28 September 855, exist; therefore, Benedict must have been rec ... |
Edward IV of England | ... ere candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, | , Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Napl ... |
Stephen | ... as his heir. Following Henry's death in 1135 one of William I's grandsons, | , laid claim to the throne, and took power with the support of most of the ... |
Louis XVI | ... After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of | , was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged ... |
Christian IV of Denmark | ... ercial relations with their former homes. Some migrated as far as Scotland. | invited some New Christian families to settle at Glückstadt about 1626, gr ... |
Saladin | In 1187 | took Ashkelon as part of his conquest of the Crusader States following the ... |
Cosimo de' Medici | ... or all residents though, among whom there were great disparities in wealth. | was the first Medici family member to essentially control the city from be ... |
Aegialeus | ... y on the advice of Tiresias. The only Argive hero that fell in this war was | , the son of Adrastus. After having built a temple of Nemesis in the neigh ... |
Abbas I of Persia | ... Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with | after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar. Khan Alam soon retur ... |
Henry III | ... and hospice. During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by | and Edward I as a base for attacks against France |
Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
Liu Ruyi | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore Emperor Gaozu a son | , who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prin ... |
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | ... respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, | and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able administrator of the Francisca ... |
Lady of the Mercians | ... was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the | ), and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succ ... |
Henry III | ... ter whose death in 1026 it passed successively to Henry, afterwards Emperor | , and then to another member of the family of Luxembourg, ruling as Duke H ... |
Hadrian | ... emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus and | as the son of divus Trajan. By the end of the 1st century, the emperor Dom ... |
King John | The town received its market charter in the year 1204 from | and around 250 stalls can still be found in the town centre every Monday, ... |
Totila | ... thic elite had been toppled. In 541 the Ostrogoths had elected a new leader | ; this Goth nationalist and brilliant commander had recaptured all of nort ... |
King Henry VIII | ... as was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Comptroller to | . Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King Henry VIII. Her mothe ... |
the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
Muhammad | ... ort Caliphate of his son Hasan. This schism occurred following the death of | |
Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng | ... In the context of weak democratic institutions at independence, Tutsi King | established a constitutional monarchy comprising equal numbers of Hutus an ... |
Aristobulus II | at:66 shift: 15,-7 text: | , 66–6 |
Hadrian | ... eeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the Emperor | , though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD has be ... |
Harald Fairhair | The family of | , who was most likely the first king of the whole Norway, is said to have ... |
Henry | ... ecarious hold on power but agreed to a compromise under which Matilda's son | would succeed him. Henry accordingly became the first monarch of the Angev ... |
Gofraid ua Ímair | ... ber of the Norse-Gael Uí Ímair dynasty, was King of Dublin from 934 to 941. | , his father, held both Dublin and York until Athelstan of England expelle ... |
Edward | ... ter, and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. He left two sons, the elder named | , who was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused w ... |
Girolamo Savonarola | During this period, the Dominican monk | had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. He was famed for his ... |
Hadrian | ... eld first appeared on Roman bronze coins of the 1st century AD struck under | , Britannia's first appearance on British coinage was on the farthing in 1 ... |
Charlemagne | ... s, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, | and his successors, the Catholic Holy Roman Emperors |
Anne Boleyn | ... possession of the Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were | and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women wer ... |
Philip II | ... and satrap under Alexander the Great. During his early life he served under | , and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | ... ould be guided by India in its foreign policy. Succeeded in 1952 by his son | , Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program of ... |
Maximilian | ... who was subsequently executed for these actions. Edmund sought the help of | , the Roman-German king. In 1506, Maximilian's son, Phillip of Burgundy, w ... |
Valens | ... ed history in 369, when he engaged in battle with the Eastern Roman Emperor | and ultimately negotiated a favorable peace for his people. During his rei ... |
Sparta | ... , who had been driven from Naupactus, Zacynthus, and the Peloponnese by the | ns after the close of the Peloponnesian War. These had at first been estab ... |
Herod the Great | ... post-Exilic period of the Maccabees, the Hasmonean dynasty, and the rise of | . He refers to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees a ... |
Richard I | ... nobility. Henry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs | and John. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's ... |
Tiberius | ... to the "position of emperor" rather than the person of the emperor. Later, | (emperor from 14-37 AD) came to be accepted as the son of divus Augustus a ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
Uthman ibn Affan | ... entative". The first four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, | and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā ... |
Antoninus Pius | # The First Apology addressed to | , his sons, and the Roman Senat |
Harihara I | ... erritories of the Hoysala empire were merged with the areas administered by | in the Tungabhadra region. This new Hindu kingdom resisted the northern in ... |
Hyrcanus II | at:67 text: | , 67–6 |
Ferdinand I of Naples | ... Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and | ; one was the able administrator of the Franciscans; and the last two elev ... |
Charles VII of France | ... that the town took on a new lease of life, as the heir apparent, the future | , had sought refuge in 1418 in the province. The town remained faithful to ... |
Napoleon III | ... e majority of his life. However, he decided to live in exile as a result of | 's Coup d'état at the end of 1851 |
Charles the Bald | ... nded to have contradictory politics, which had severe consequences. In 867, | signed the Treaty of Compiègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin P ... |
Caracalla | ... b of Achilles at Achilleion while passing Troy. In AD 216 the Roman Emperor | , while on his way to war against Parthia, emulated Alexander by holding g ... |
Sebastianus | ... ft Antioch for Constantinople, and arrived on the 30th of May. He appointed | , newly arrived from Italy, to reorganize the Roman armies already in Thra ... |
Frederick William IV | ... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, | gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
Xiao Yan | ... ed after Xiao Baojun killed his prime minister Xiao Yi, leading his brother | to revolt under the banner of Xiao Baojun's brother who was declared Emper ... |
Æthelred | ... te son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the Lady of the Mercians), and | , the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succeeded by Edward ... |
Demetrius | ... west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his son | to Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ... |
Trajan | ... is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for | , and the date 106 AD has been assigned to it. It is a handbook of Greek, ... |
As-Salih Ayyub | ... the defences of coastal sites. The Egyptians retook Ashkelon in 1247 during | 's conflict with the Crusader States and the city was returned to Muslim r ... |
Henry VIII | ... ller to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King | . Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catheri ... |
Charles | ... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on | 's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ... |
Empress Lü Zhi | ... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother | . Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ... |
Maria of Alania | ... an was undermined by the Caesar John Doukas, and Nikephoros instead married | . They married in contravention of church canons, as Maria was still at th ... |
Charles II | ... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son, | , who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ... |
Salome Alexandra | at:76 text: | c. 76–6 |
Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
Amphiaraus | ... d fallen in the war against Thebes to make a new attack upon that city, and | now declared that the gods approved of the undertaking, and promised succe ... |
Henry VIII | ... other parts were added and a stable form finally appeared in 1540. In 1542 | authorised it as the sole Latin grammar textbook to be used in education a ... |
Constantine IV | ... there in 680/681. He also delivered a combative letter from Pope Leo II to | in 682. He met and developed a rapport with Prince Justinian, the heir app ... |
Augustus | ... ius" (divus Iulius). His adopted son, Octavian (better known by the title " | " given to him 15 years later, in 27 BC) thus became known as "divi Iuli f ... |
Richard I of England | ... strategic importance to the Christians, but the leader of the Crusade, King | , constructed a citadel upon the ruins. Ashkelon subsequently remained par ... |
King Louis XIV | ... ater, Racine accepted a position as a royal historiographer in the court of | , alongside his friend Boileau. He kept this position in spite of the mino ... |
Emperor Gaozu | ... h day of the eighth lunar month every year, Qi would play a weiqi game with | in the bamboo forest on the north side of the palace. The winner would mak ... |
Alexander the Great | ... Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. | , son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this de ... |
John | ... ry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs Richard I and | . Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's death, h ... |
Henry IV | ... Henry VII. In 1061, Empress Agnes, mother of and regent for the German king | , entrusted the duchy to Otto of Nordheim |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | In 1972, | ascended the throne at age 20. He emphasized modern education, decentraliz ... |
Edmund I of England | ... Peaceable, was a king of England (r. 959–75). Edgar was the younger son of | |
Nicolas Sarkozy | In March 2011 media outlets reveled that French president | has started using a £10,000 armor-plated umbrella to protect him from atta ... |
Frederick William III | ... ersity professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death of | in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with | . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon |
Liu Ying | ... who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prince | (his eldest son) was an unsuitable heir to his throne. He tried several ti ... |
Prince of Wales | ... Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster, | , was killed on the battlefield. A few days later, on the night that Edwar ... |
Bảo Đại | ... ognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor | , and the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought ... |
Theodosius | ... y fleeing to Caucaland in the Carpathians, Athanaric was warmly received by | in Constantinople in 381, where he signed a treaty of friendship with the ... |
Henry | Like the family of King | 's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a ... |
Amalric I | ... kuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, Shawar called on King | of Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric sent an army into Egypt ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... is a major financial and commercial hub of Kerala. Historians say that King | had invited several Syrian Christian families and Brahmins to settle in Th ... |
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | His mother was the second surviving daughter of | and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | ... is position, on the death of his second wife Nikephoros III sought to marry | , the mother of Michael VII and the widow of Constantine X and Romanos IV. ... |
King James I | ... and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under | . His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ... |
Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
As-Salih | ... in. Nur ad-Din died in 1174, leaving the new empire to his 11-year old son, | . It was decided that the only man competent enough to uphold the jihad ag ... |
Shaka | ... , the region was invaded by Mzilikazi, originally a lieutenant of Zulu King | who was pushed from his own territories to the west by the Zulu armies. Af ... |
Herod Antipas | A tragedy, it tells the story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch | , who, to her stepfather's dismay but mother's delight, requests the head ... |
Francis I of France | ... rgs and Russia, in 1524 Sigismund signed a Franco-Polish alliance with King | . The agreement fell through, however, when Francis I was vanquished by Ch ... |
Anne Neville | ... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and | . They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ... |
Abu Bakr | ... of choosing leadership prevailed among the leading companions of Muhammad. | was elected as the first caliph or successor to Muhammad, with the other c ... |
Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
Bahadur Shah II | ... afire, and marched into the Red Fort, where they asked the Mughal emperor, | , to become their leader and reclaim his throne. The emperor was reluctant ... |
Asopus | He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god | . He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been ... |
Odin | ... dda book Gylfaginning, Hel is described as having been appointed by the god | as ruler of a realm of the same name, located in Niflheim. In the same sou ... |
Margaret of York | ... ard IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to | , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England |
Charles VIII of France | ... nso. The most doubtful passage in his diplomatic career is when he welcomed | upon the entry of that king into Naples in 1495, thus showing that he was ... |
Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao | ... devices. Life on Lānai remained relatively calm until King Kamehameha I or | took control, slaughtering people on every part of the island. So many wer ... |
Frederick William III | ... ofessorship. Another consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees was the refusal by | to confer the chain of office, the official seal and an official name to t ... |
Aurelian | ... ttacked the Romans in the lower Danube area. In about 271 the Roman Emperor | was obliged to protect the middle course of the Danube against them. They ... |
Philip II | ... chus XIII. Even so, civil wars could not be prevented, as another Seleucid, | , contested rule with Antiochus. After the Roman conquest of Pontus, the R ... |
Severus | ... Galerius refused to recognize him, but failed to unseat him. Galerius sent | against Maxentius, but during the campaign, Severus' armies, previously un ... |
Edmund | ... 939, Olaf again invaded York the same year, forcing Athelstan's successor, | , into a treaty which ceded to Amlaíb Northumbria and part of Mercia. Uniq ... |
Murad IV | ... eated the Mughals at Kandahar. He even wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sultan | , Jahangir's ambition however did not materialize due to his death in 1627 |
Timoleon | ... ed in 344 BC, when it was one of the first cities that declared in favor of | after his landing in Sicily. At a later period we find it mentioned as esp ... |
Causantín mac Áeda | Amlaíb married the daughter of | . He also allied himself with Owen I of Strathclyde. In 937, Amlaíb led hi ... |
Richard III of England | ... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King | ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ... |
Edward IV of England | ... enet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to | and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York ... |
Muhammad | According to Sunni beliefs, | gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he di ... |
second wife | Like the family of King Henry's | , the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ... |
Henry III | ... upt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown to his nine-year-old son | . Later in Henry's reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebe ... |
Grace Kelly | ... erican Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and | . The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... s doctoral studies; the situation was resolved by a special dispensation of | himself, on 27 March 1941. His thesis (The origin of the human soul accord ... |
Ntare V | ... nd intellectuals. In 1966, King Mwambutsa IV was deposed by his son, Prince | , who himself was deposed by his prime minister Capt. Michel Micombero in ... |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... d Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England and | as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Du ... |
Xiao Daocheng | ... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The general | slowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ... |
Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | ... alifa assumed the throne in March 1999 upon the death of his father, Shaikh | , the ruler of Bahrain since 1961. He continued to implement democratic re ... |
Catherine Howard | ... he Howard family. Notable members of the Howard Family were Anne Boleyn and | , second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of Thomas H ... |
Domitian | ... vely, associated with Emperor Augustus. Later, it was also used to refer to | . There are textual and contextual arguments for and against the translati ... |
Theseus | ... Polynices and was put to death, but Adrastus escaped to Athens to petition | , the city's king, to attack Thebes and force the return of the bodies of ... |
Elizabeth I | ... g the burgesses of Chesterfield the same privileges as those of Nottingham. | granted a charter of incorporation in 1594, creating a corporation consist ... |
Elizabeth I of England | Charles was a weak and sickly infant. When | died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as Jame ... |
Władysław Gomułka | ... social aims, the regime led by the Polish Communist Party's First Secretary | began to liberalize internal life in Poland. Several years of relative sta ... |
Polycrates | ... around 530 BC) to Croton, in Italy (Magna Graecia). Possibly the tyranny of | in Samos made it difficult for him to achieve his schemes there. His later ... |
Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
Ahab | ... in the Tanach, whose worship was prominently introduced into Israel by King | and largely eradicated by King Jehu. In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there ... |
John the Blind | ... man Emperor and Count of Luxemburg, was minting coins in Bastogne. In 1332, | , his son, granted the city its charter and had it encircled by defensive ... |
Emperor Gaozu | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore | a son Liu Ruyi, who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that ... |
Veera Ballala III | ... influence spread over Pandya kingdom also. Toward the end of 13th century, | recaptured territory in the Tamil country which had been lost to the Pandy ... |
Kublai Khan | ... system named Örtöö within the Mongol Empire. During the Yuan Dynasty under | , this system also covered the territory of China. Postal stations were us ... |
Baldwin IV | Amalric also died in 1174, leaving Jerusalem to his 13-year old son, | . Although Baldwin suffered from leprosy, he was an effective and active m ... |
Mzilikazi | ... long distance direct and indirect trade. In 1817, the region was invaded by | , originally a lieutenant of Zulu King Shaka who was pushed from his own t ... |
Titus | ... mpanions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius Vespasian and his son | , both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to surrender, but they ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... of Northumberland had employed Cecil in the administration of the lands of | . Before Mary died he was a member of the "old flock of Hatfield", and fro ... |
Henry II of France | ... together. King Henry III of France confirmed the privileges granted them by | , and protected them against such slanders and accusations as those which ... |
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence | ... and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, | and Richard III of England |
Casimir III | ... centre of Poland back then. Because of its strategic location, in 1343 king | signed there a peace treaty with the Teutonic Order. As a royal town, the ... |
Ferdinand II | ... shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of Isabella I and | , Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus reached land in t ... |
Sybilla | ... ing year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother Princess | , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy of Lusi ... |
Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... the eldest of the four sons who survived to adulthood. His younger brother | , died along with his father fighting for the Yorkist cause. The Duke of Y ... |
Charles II | ... Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke | married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern and in 1797 became queen con ... |
Chanyu | ... BCE) and Emperor Wen (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the | 's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raid ... |
Asa | ... was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem. He was succeeded by his son, | |
Philip II of Macedon | ... valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, | in 350 BC; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, an ... |
Otto II | ... , succeeded him, but in 974 he became involved in a conspiracy against King | . The rising occurred because the king had granted the duchy of Swabia to ... |
Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
Attalus II Philadelphus | ... he design of the Maccabeans to fruition. Demetrius I Soter's relations with | of Pergamon (reigned 159–138 BCE), Ptolemy VI of Egypt (reigned 163–145 BC ... |
Ferdinand I | ... King Louis II of Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács, Silesia was inherited by | , placing Opole under the sovereignty of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa | ... irsty, undisciplined, unwashed (literally). The leader of the Third Crusade | openly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the M ... |
Augustus | ... "son of a god" was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor | . Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian. There are textual and cont ... |
Huayna Capac | ... Spanish conquistadors arrived from the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by | , who had two sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of th ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ures, were considered sons of gods such as Zeus, from around 360 BC onwards | may have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ... |
Khosrau I | ... the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successor, | , in 540 and his destruction of Antioch and the transportation of its inha ... |
Genghis Khan | ... at Bamian and the rock-cut topes of Haibak. The district was devastated by | , and has never since fully recovered its prosperity. For about a century ... |
Louis XIII of France | Under | the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ... |
Władysław Łokietek | ... Voivodeship, one of the provincial capitals Voivodeships of Poland, by king | . A notable centre of trade, Kalisz was also located more or less in the c ... |
Artaxerxes III | After | of Persia and all of his sons were killed by the vizier Bagoas, the vizier ... |
Herod the Great | at:37 shift: 15,-5 text: | victorious, rules 37 BCE–4 C |
Isabella I | ... rope to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of | and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492 Columbus r ... |
King James I | ... to return without even making it to Roanoke Island. Having been arrested by | for treason, Raleigh was unable to send any further missions |
Treniota | ... e married to Vykintas and another to Daniel of Halych. Vykintas and his son | played major roles in later power struggles. Mindaugas had at least two wi ... |
Jehu | ... minently introduced into Israel by King Ahab and largely eradicated by King | . In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there is a mocking reference to legendar ... |
Arthur of Brittany | ... 's choice was John, but Walter initially leaned towards John's young nephew | . When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... on 8 November 1933 at the age of 19, after the assassination of his father | . Following his ascension to the throne he was given the regnal title "He ... |
Frederick V | ... e. In November 1619, the royal crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, | . (He was married to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I and VI of Engla ... |
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | The peninsula became part of the Duchy of Prussia when | , the 37th Grand Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Kn ... |
Atahualpa | ... rom the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by Huayna Capac, who had two sons: | , being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and Huáscar, seated ... |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call immediately. He took up the Cross at Mainz Cathedral ... |
Theodosius | ... thraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor | during the last decade of the 4th century |
Władysław Gomułka | ... could gain complete control over Poland. Future General Secretary of PZPR, | , is quoted as saying: "Soldiers of AK are a hostile element which must be ... |
Henrietta Maria | On 11 May 1625 Charles was married by proxy to | in front of the doors of the Notre Dame de Paris, before his first Parliam ... |
Roman Emperor | ... imperial coronation); they saw their rule as a continuation of that of the | s and used the title derived from the title Caesar to reflect their suppos ... |
Henry | In 955 Henry's young son | , surnamed the Quarrelsome, succeeded him, but in 974 he became involved i ... |
Saul | ... t of the battle between David and Goliath is given in 1 Samuel, chapter 17. | and the Israelites are facing the Philistines at the Valley of Elah. Twice ... |
Rehoboam | ... he House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of | , the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler ... |
Demetrius I Soter | ... important external event brought the design of the Maccabeans to fruition. | 's relations with Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon (reigned 159–138 BCE ... |
Abdur Rahman Khan | ... was re-organized by the British in 1880, when the country was ruled by Amir | . It was modernized during King Amanullah Khan's rule in the early 20th ce ... |
Louis the Pious | ... intered in Scandinavia. Several coastal areas were lost during the reign of | (814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal fam ... |
Witiges | A faction of the Gothic nobility pointed out that their own king | , who had just lost, was something of a weakling and they would need a new ... |
Vercingetorix | ... x have various adventures. The "ix" suffix of both names echoes the name of | , a historical Gaul chieftain. In many cases, the stories have them travel ... |
Elizabeth | ... rown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, Frederick V. (He was married to | , eldest daughter of James I and VI of England and Scotland). He became kn ... |
Nero | ... Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor | for the release of several Jewish priests. Upon his return to Jerusalem, h ... |
Przemysł II of Poland | In 1282 the city laws were confirmed by | and in 1314 it was made the capital of the Kalisz Voivodeship, one of the ... |
King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
Chanyu | ... jority that a limited engagement at Mayi involving the assassination of the | would throw the Xiongnu realm into chaos and benefit the Han. When this pl ... |
Charles V | ... t, Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for | where they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascina ... |
Henry | ... e reflects the Tudor period with emblems of the crucifixion and the arms of | and Aragon (the lands passed to Henry VIII as a consequence of the ) |
Vira Narasimha II | ... an politics that began a period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. | 's son Vira Someshwara earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pand ... |
Genghis Khan | | installed an empire-wide messenger and postal station system named Örtöö w ... |
King George III | ... of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying | became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklen ... |
Hulagu Khan | ... dad and the execution of Abassid caliph al-Musta'sim by Mongol forces under | . A surviving member of the Abbasid House was installed as Caliph at Cairo ... |
Frederick II of Prussia | ... ed of little worth to Maria Theresa. The peace was initially broken by King | , who invaded Silesia. Soon other powers began to exploit Austria's weakne ... |
Huáscar | ... o sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and | , seated in the Incan capital Cusco. Upon Huayna Capac's death in 1525, th ... |
Semiramis | ... e lauded her accomplishments, calling her "The Star of the North" and the " | of Russia" (in reference to the legendary Queen of Babylon, a subject on w ... |
Solomon | ... second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of | and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ... |
William Marshal | ... Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached | , one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, h ... |
Henry III of France | ... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. King | confirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ... |
consul and patrician | ... xposition of Latin grammar. The dedication to Julian probably indicates the | , not the author of a well-known epitome of Justinian's Novellae, who live ... |
Achilles | ... ge of the god, and never polled them afresh until the vow was fulfilled. So | consecrated his hair to the river Spercheus and vowed not to cut it until ... |
Al-Mansur | ... s part of the taifa of Dénia. The founder of this state was a client of the | family, Muyahid ibn Yusuf ibn Ali, who could take profit from the progress ... |
Jigme Wangchuck | ... dvice in its external relations. When Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926, his son | became the next ruler, and when India gained independence in 1947, the new ... |
Mwezi IV Gisabo | ... n monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances, the Burundian king | opposed all European influence, refusing to wear European clothing and res ... |
Pope John Paul I | In the work known as Illustrissimi, a collection of letters written by | when he was Patriarch of Venice, Dupanloup is one of the "recipients" of t ... |
Xiang Yu | ... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords, | and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... war eroded the power of the shabdrung for the next 200 years when in 1885, | was able to consolidate power and cultivated closer ties with the British ... |
David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
Vira Someshwara | ... period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. Vira Narasimha II's son | earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pandyas and Cholas. The Hoy ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | ... independence has notably come under intense criticism since the election of | as French President. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible t ... |
Mieszko I | ... nd a nation. The historically recorded Polish state begins with the rule of | in the second half of the 10th century. Mieszko chose to be baptized in th ... |
Vespasian | ... e with forty of his companions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius | and his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to su ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... s formed part of the Muscovite wars. 1515 he entered into alliance with the | Maximilian I |
Charlemagne | In 812 Michael I reopened negotiations with the Franks, and recognized | as basileus (emperor) without saying anything else. In exchange for that r ... |
Eraric | ... o had just lost, was something of a weakling and they would need a new one. | , the leader of the group, endorsed Belisarius and the rest of the kingdom ... |
Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
Charles | ... ogne became part of the lands of the Spanish Crown when the Burgundian heir | became King of Spain in 1516 |
Emperor Gaozu | ... ine Qi (died 194 BC), also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, was a consort of | , founder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese ... |
Henry II | ... res to reform the monasteries. His son and successor, chosen German king as | in 1002, gave Bavaria to his brother-in-law Henry of Luxembourg, after who ... |
Theuderic III | ... ful Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and of Neustria under Merovingian king | , probably chose this location as his main residence because of its proxim ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of | 's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ... |
Veera Ballala II | ... yphal, though popular, anecdote recounts that the 11th century Hoysala king | , while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hun ... |
Husayn ibn Ali | According to Shiite tradition, the head of | , grandson of Mohammad, was buried in Ashkelon. In the late 11th century i ... |
Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
Constantius II | ... osed a work entitled De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to | and Constans, the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds ... |
Pius XII | ... his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of | or Paul VI. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact t ... |
Casimir I | ... land. This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under | . Casimir's son Bolesław II the Bold became fatally involved in a conflict ... |
Alfonso | ... ingular gifts of the young scholar, and made him tutor to his sons, notably | , who would reign for a single year but whose energies in the decade 1485- ... |
Alexander Severus | ... t he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of | (222–235) and his successors |
Vespasian | ... vius from his patrons. This was standard practice for "new" Roman citizens. | arranged for the widower Josephus to marry a captured Jewish woman, who ul ... |
Alexander the Great | ... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under | . During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... provinces, originates from the conception of the first Persian Empire under | , beginning at around 530 BCE. However, Provincial organization originated ... |
Emperor of Japan | Jimmu Tenno, the first | (perhaps c. 600 BC) was also called the Son of Heaven, (Ten for Heaven and ... |
Luitpold | During the reign of Louis the Child, | , Count of Scheyern, who possessed large Bavarian domains, ruled the Mark ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to | , who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ... |
King James I | English (and Scottish) monarch | granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as "Angilla, ... |
Emperor | ... rians and others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of | Augustus, present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a ... |
Zeno | ... iginating with Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by Emperor | with the view of allaying the strife between the Miaphysite Christians and ... |
Odin | ... 00 AD. On the inscription, the god Heimdallr is mentioned alongside the god | and Þjálfi, a name of one of the god Thor's servants. Regarding the inscri ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... Cold War". After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government of | in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Bu ... |
David | ... e the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid. | , bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Saul has promised to re ... |
William | ... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first to | at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ... |
Brychan | ... emi-legendary. Saints associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of | , Geraint, Begnet, and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gab ... |
Bessus | ... Alexander then decided to pursue Darius, but Darius was killed by a satrap | before Alexander reached him |
Louis XIII | ... aris while en route to Spain. It was a good match since she was a sister of | (their father, Henry IV, had died during her childhood). Parliament reluct ... |
Alexander Balas | ... deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid throne: | , who purported to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and a first cousin ... |
Constans | ... d De errore profanarum religionum, which he dedicated to Constantius II and | , the sons of Constantine, and which is still extant. He holds up to scorn ... |
Nuh | ... Nameh" came into the possession of King Yaqub Lais and then the Samani king | ordered the poet Daqiqi to complete it but Daqiqi was killed by his slave ... |
Stephen | ... ing royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous civil war between King | and the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldi ... |
Paul VI | ... mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of Pius XII or | . Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact that he was ... |
Asopus | ... colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the | . Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his jus ... |
Alphonso the Magnanimous | ... delli, through whose influence he gained admission to the royal chancery of | . Alphonso discerned the singular gifts of the young scholar, and made him ... |
Vaišvilkas | ... earlier wife; her existence is presumed because two children – a son named | and an unnamed daughter married to Svarn in 1255 – were already leading in ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... e and started his own school. Tatian was one of his pupils. In the reign of | , after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens, he was denounced by ... |
Semiramis | ... of a fish though her head remained human. Derceto's child grew up to become | , the Assyrian queen. In another story, told by Hyginus, an egg fell from ... |
Flavius Honorius | ... nd of the 1st century BC. Rome's population started dropping in 402 AD when | , Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423, moved the government to Ravenna a ... |
Cleopatra II of Egypt | ... 138 BCE), Ptolemy VI of Egypt (reigned 163–145 BCE), and Ptolemy's co-ruler | were deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid th ... |
Charlemagne | ... luding dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, pneumatic tubes, and even submarine. | extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in ... |
Constantine I | ... a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of | and his successors |
George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
John III Sobieski | ... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland | , a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ... |
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... ministration of the Seleucid Empire, and then with the establishment of the | in Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | The son of King | and Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland ... |
Adolf | Walram's son and successor | would later became King of Germany from 1292 until 1298. In 1329, under Ad ... |
Queen Elizabeth | In 1939, King George VI and | toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ... |
Bolesław Krzywousty | ... in 9th century as a provincial capital castellany and a minor fort. In 1106 | captured the town and made it a part of his feudal domain. Between 1253 an ... |
Athalaric | ... Septimania. Provence was added to the dominion of the new Ostrogothic king | , the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter Amalasuntha. Both were un ... |
Prince Henry | ... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son | , Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ... |
Richard I | Henry II of England died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son | (Lionheart) and Philip II. Richard inherited the crown and immediately beg ... |
King Henry VI | ... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by | , survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ... |
Emperor of China | ... d reflected the Zhou belief that as Son of Heaven (and as its delegate) the | was responsible for the well being of the whole world by the Mandate of He ... |
Staurakios | ... propriate candidate for the throne than his severely injured brother-in-law | . When Michael's wife Prokopia failed to persuade her brother to name Mich ... |
Louis XIV | ... ed in the treaty, and for making terms with France. He refused a bribe from | , but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10,000 crowns; in 1670 he was t ... |
Eberhard | A similar conflict took place between Arnulf's son and successor | and Henry's son Otto I the Great. Eberhard proved less successful than his ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying | , the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464 |
Boudica | ... D between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Briton leader | |
Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... l to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published a eulogy of King | entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la C ... |
Elizabeth | ... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, | and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ... |
Frederick William III of Hohenzollern | ... r niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II married | and in 1797 became queen consort of Prussia |
Pius XI | ... as the first pope in decades not to have had either a diplomatic role (like | and John XXIII) or role (like Pius XII and Paul VI) in the Church |
Theodosius I | ... tinople. According to Jordanes, he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, | , that made some Thervings foederati, or official allies of Rome allowed t ... |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | In 995 defeated by | |
Antoninus Pius | ... s of a philosopher himself and traveled about teaching. During the reign of | (138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. Tatian was one o ... |
Maria Theresa of Austria | ... d the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of | , led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... high that television cameras were blown over. The audience, which included | , was on the second evening soaked by rain and wind |
Adolph of Nassau | ... and became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The deposed duke | in 1890 became the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (see House of Nassau) |
Charles X Gustav of Sweden | ... o territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the Second Northern War, | invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg (January 1656) ... |
Jacquetta of Luxembourg | Elizabeth's mother was | , widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ... |
Prince Rupert of the Rhine | ... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed against | is a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ... |
Titus Manlius Torquatus | ... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under | to 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ... |
Leo VI the Wise | ... nd later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their own use). Emperor | incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art (Τέ ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... reliz was first mentioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later | , Henry IV in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meisse ... |
Henry | When Bertold died in 947, Otto conferred the duchy upon his own brother | , who had married Judith, a daughter of Duke Arnulf. The Bavarians dislike ... |
Arsames | ... i and was serving at the time as a royal courier. Codomannus was the son of | , son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter o ... |
Edward | ... hree children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and | , both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's pas ... |
Prince Harry of Wales | ... ate are: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, | and The Duke of York |
Hiero II | ... earning from their crews that a Carthaginian fleet was to attack Lilybaeum, | warned the Roman praetor Marcus Amellius there. As a result the Romans pre ... |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... ow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, | , was a new-minted baron. Elizabeth's marriage to Edward IV made the unmar ... |
Philip's | Following his erstwhile ally | defeat by Rome in 197 BC, Antiochus saw the opportunity for expansion into ... |
Charles the Bold | Image:Charles the Bold 1460.jpg|Portrait of | , 146 |
Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
Muhammad | ... engers, that Bahá'ís name Manifestations of God, and include Jesus, Buddha, | and Baha'u'llah among others. Shoghi Effendi notes that since all Manifest ... |
Theodahad | ... ghter Amalasuntha. Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. | , cousin of Amalasuntha and nephew of Theodoric through his sister, took o ... |
Louis the Bavarian | ... d thereby, Wiesbaden, received the right of coinage from Holy Roman Emperor | |
King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
Henry VIII | ... ms of the crucifixion and the arms of Henry and Aragon (the lands passed to | as a consequence of the ) |
William IV | ... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was | , who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ... |
Arthurian legend | ... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion, | , and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ... |
Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
Kavadh I | ... (roughly modern-day Georgia). It details the campaigns of the Sasanian Shah | , the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successo ... |
Conrad I | ... rians in 911, uniting Bavaria and Carinthia under his rule. The German king | unsuccessfully attacked Arnulf when the latter refused to acknowledge his ... |
Theobald IV | ... Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of | , count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin. On the ... |
Louis XIV | ... iage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of | , king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector C ... |
Artaxerxes III | The last great rebellions were put down by | |
Æthelred the Unready | ... sinated at Corfe Castle, possibly at the instigation of his stepmother, and | became king. His coronation on Low Sunday 31 March, 978, was the last stat ... |
Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
Charlemagne | ... the nickname Martellus (“hammer”). Charles, in turn, was the grandfather of | , also supposedly born in Héristal, where he lived for at least fifteen ye ... |
Henry IV | ... in. It was a good match since she was a sister of Louis XIII (their father, | , had died during her childhood). Parliament reluctantly agreed to the mar ... |
Prokopia | ... patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet. He married | , the daughter of the future Emperor Nikephoros I, and received the high c ... |
Justinian I | ... Ostrogothic position in Italy now showed itself. The Eastern Roman Emperor | always strove to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could a ... |
Antiochus IV Epiphanes | ... ant to the Seleucid throne: Alexander Balas, who purported to be the son of | and a first cousin of Demetrius. Demetrius was forced to recall the garris ... |
Elizabeth I | On March 25, 1584, Queen | granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North Americ ... |
Henry II of England | ... g control of the city. In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, King | reaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and prono ... |
Emperor Wen | ... ouse sponsored many literary works, and many wrote themselves. The court of | was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compila ... |
Arsaces | ... his Bactrian neighbour. Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief called | invaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — ... |
Fidel | ... the President of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until | and Raúl Castro leave power and a prescribed course of transition is follo ... |
Henry Tudor | ... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of | , who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485 |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
Franz Joseph I | ... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser | |
John of England | ... reland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King | . Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the ... |
Umar ibn al-Khattab | ... of Khalifa is "representative". The first four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, | , Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly known by Sunnis, mai ... |
Tokugawa shogunate | ... ian government dispatched a trade mission to Japan, led by Adam Laxman. The | received the mission, but negotiations failed |
Conall | The Senchus says that Comgall had one son, | , and that Conall had seven sons, although six are named, Loingsech, Necht ... |
Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
Iemitsu | ... ll, the majority lived in poverty as rōnin. Under the third Tokugawa shogun | , their number approached half a million |
Cináed | ... the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on Iona. Máel Coluim's sons Dub and | were later kings. American musician Johnny Cash is a descendant |
Nestor | ... similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young | fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion. Each giant wields a distinctive ... |
Sten Sture the Elder | ... outside Stockholm) October 1471 where he was defeated by the Swedish regent | who was supported by the Danish-Swedish nobleman's clan the Thott family. ... |
Numitor | ... ded from the Trojan prince Aeneas and who were grandsons of the Latin King, | of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, Am ... |
Veera Ballala III | ... ith such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, Veera Ballala II and later | . During this time, peninsular India saw a four way struggle for hegemony ... |
Laius | ... he King. In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told to | before the birth of Oedipus. Namely |
Veera Ballala II | ... r own empire in Karnataka with such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, | and later Veera Ballala III. During this time, peninsular India saw a four ... |
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq | The precise meaning of Khalifa is "representative". The first four Caliphs: | , Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly ... |
John | ... d peers attempted to undo Henry's reforms by the Magna Carta forced on King | , but by that time the reforms had progressed too far — and their superior ... |
William de Croÿ | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor Charles V, see: | |
Ahmad Shah Abdali | ... r to select a new ruler for the Abdali confederation, the young 25-year-old | was chosen. Despite being younger than other claimants, Abdali had several ... |
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... ng King George III became queen consort of Great Britain. In 1793 her niece | , daughter of Duke Charles II married Frederick William III of Hohenzoller ... |
Edward I of England | ... not permitted to live in Wales between the 1290 Edict of Expulsion—given by | —and the 17th century. A Welsh Jewish community was re-established in the ... |
Khan Ahmed | ... Tatar yoke. In 1476 Ivan refused to pay the customary tribute to the grand | . All through the autumn the Russian and Tatar hosts confronted each other ... |
Louis XIV of France | In 1604, King | sent a large number of people to settle in Guyana, which would bring the F ... |
Perseus | ... similarities to Oedipus can for example be seen in the myth of the birth of | |
Louis XV of France | ... François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King | by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard (1740–1769) through h ... |
Ivan VI | ... n Russia alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: | , Peter III, Paul I, and Alexander II |
Margaret | ... Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, Elizabeth and | , who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousi ... |
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Louis IV | ... es the Fat, in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king | in 903, the Lotharingians frequently swapped allegiance between the East a ... |
Ragnvald Knaphövde | One of these Swedish kings was | , who in 1125 was riding with his retinue in order to be accepted as king ... |
Yoshihito | On July 30, 1912, the Meiji Emperor died and Crown Prince | became the new emperor of Japan and succeeded to the throne, beginning the ... |
Meiji Emperor | On July 30, 1912, the | died and Crown Prince Yoshihito became the new emperor of Japan and succee ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | In May 2010, | was filmed by a News of the World reporter claiming that the Duke of York ... |
Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
Gylfi | ... n chapter 53 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells Gangleri (king | in disguise) that two people, Líf and Lífþrasir, will lie hid in Hoddmímis ... |
Zotto | ... ds failed to consolidate it, though the centre of the south was theirs from | 's conquest in the final quarter of the 6th century |
Tassilo I | ... he Upper Drava region, where they soon fought with the Bavarians under Duke | . In 592 the Bavarians won, but three years later, in 595 the Slavic-Avar ... |
Alyattes | ... me “Goliath” itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king | , which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story. , ... |
Pol Pot | ... ambodia were displaced after being expelled by the Khmer Rouge regime under | . A small, predominantly Muslim ethnic group, the Cham people long residin ... |
King Juan Carlos I | On 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility by | with the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... n and the accession, at Trier (Trèves, in Germany) at least, of the usurper | (383), Ithacius fled to Trier, and in consequence of his representations a ... |
Bridei | ... Cenél Comgaill married the Pictish princess Der-Ilei, and the Pictish kings | and Nechtan mac Der Ilei were the result of this marriage |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... Empire. Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: In 1761 | , sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, by marrying King George III became ... |
Ariarathes III | ... such as Bactria under Diodotus, Parthia under Arsaces, and Cappadocia under | |
King Herod | ... (whether good or bad). In his play En Idealist, for example, the "hero" is | whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until h ... |
Vishnuvardhana | ... transformation into a strong subordinate of the Western Chalukyas. Through | 's expansive military conquests, the Hoysalas achieved the status of a rea ... |
Saladin | He was planning to star in an $80 million movie about | and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Mousta ... |
Constantine IX | ... , the Empire began to decline under the reign of the militarily incompetent | and again under Constantine X—a brief two year rule of reform under Isaac ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by | . Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ... |
Alexander II | ... uke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of | , Czar of Russia |
Emperor Wen | ... Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor, | , is known for its political stability and capable administration, not onl ... |
Peter Estenberg | ... n carried off to Saxony by August. During this time the King of Sweden sent | to King Stanislaw to act as an ambassador and correspondence secretary. Th ... |
Robert I of Scotland | ... 3th century. Dublin prospered as a trade centre, despite an attempt by King | to capture the city in 1317. It remained a relatively small walled medieva ... |
Arnulf | ... ries of Emperor Charles the Fat. This incompetent ruler left its defence to | , an illegitimate son of Carloman. Due mainly to the support of the Bavari ... |
Amulius | ... tor of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, | , while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth to the twins. Because ... |
Demetrius Zvonimir | ... by assassins. High medieval sources also mention the assassination of king | (1089), dying at the hands of his own people who objected to a proposition ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various | s and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'H ... |
Leopold | ... aden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of | , grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, ... |
Theodora | ... n prefect in Gaul. Constantius left Helena to marry Maximian's stepdaughter | in 288 or 289 |
Asfaw Wossen | ... Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince | , Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... inier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia | ;; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip |
Charlemagne | ... t of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d'Estaing was a multiple descendant of | |
Prince of Wales | ... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as | and as king |
Emperor Wu | ... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
King George III | On 16 February 1768, the Royal Society petitioned | to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the ... |
Astyages | ... mbyses I, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of | , a Median king |
Alexander I | ... uslim regional powers. The first attempt at forging an alliance was made by | , king of a small Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, who dispatched two embassie ... |
James I of England | ... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became | , and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ... |
Genseric | The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king | entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman A ... |
Herod the Great | ... Caesar's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of | , a Jewish client king of Rome. Ashkelon may have even been his birthplace ... |
Sarah, Duchess of York | ... graph saying "I will not be marrying Andrew now or in the future." In 2007, | purchased Dolphin House, a mansion directly beside the Royal Lodge. In 200 ... |
Philippikos Bardanes | The new emperor | was an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third C ... |
Mao Zedong | ... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, | instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ... |
Iemitsu | ... creased. Confiscation of fiefs during the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun | resulted in an especially large increase of rōnin. During previous ages, s ... |
14th Dalai Lama | In Southwest China, many Tibetan people emigrated to India, following the | in 1959 after the failure of his Tibetan uprising. This wave lasted until ... |
George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
Alexander the Great | ... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE, | 's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ... |
Queen Victoria | ... liticians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where | permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a ... |
Odin | In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god | poses a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will s ... |
Dost Mohammad Khan | ... was a descendant of Sardar Sultan Mohammed Khan Telai, half-brother of Amir | . His grandfather Mohammad Yahya Khan (father in law of Amir Yaqub Khan) w ... |
Elizabeth II | On 17 May 2011, | became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ... |
Mattathias | According to I and II Maccabees, the priestly family of | (Mattisyahu/Mattitiyahu in Hebrew), which came to be known as the Maccabee ... |
Ivan V | ... by Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Peter the Great's half-brother and co-ruler, | |
Georgios I | ... hing behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King | |
Antiochus I | ... ds of the syncretic Graeco-Armenian-Iranian royal cult at Nemrut founded by | of Commagene in the mid 1st century BC. Michael Speidel associates Mithras ... |
Tipu Sultan | ... har, and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765. After the defeat of | , most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule, or unde ... |
Henry IV | ... Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and | (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieval sources also menti ... |
Justinian | ... dicates the consul and patrician, not the author of a well-known epitome of | 's Novellae, who lived somewhat later than Priscian. The grammar is divide ... |
Mieszko the Old | ... s initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built. The Polish king | was buried in Kalisz |
Philip III of Spain | ... he Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and | in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat. In Septe ... |
Flavius Constantius | ... bia, on 27 February of an uncertain year, probably near 272. His father was | , a native of Moesia (later Dacia Ripensis). Constantius was a tolerant an ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
Charles II of England | The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was | 's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ... |
Henry II, King of England | ... lished in the early 7th century. It was still an ecclesiastical centre when | stayed here in 1171, and except for a brief period after 1185 when his son ... |
Napoleon III | ... de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, | , emperor of the French |
Æthelberht of Kent | ... y sited for communication with the Continent. In the late 6th century, King | married a Christian Frankish princess named Bertha, possibly before becomi ... |
Minos | ... r his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and | ) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns of | and especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ... |
George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
Louis XIV | ... Lully's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of | to the throne of France |
James II | ... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successor | attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ... |
King George II | ... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by | . Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ... |
Hiero | ... raecia cities led by Syracuse. A few years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrant | defeated the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae. Etruria's influence over th ... |
elder Dionysius | ... n Sicily that could claim a purely Greek origin, having been founded by the | in 396 or 395 BC. The original settlers were the remains of the Messenian ... |
Oxylus | ... . The Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus lists eight Hamadryads, the daughters of | and Hamadryas |
Roman Emperor | ... as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the | Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Goth ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
Gratian | ... f Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperor | us, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment. ... |
Henry III | ... (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings | (1589) and Henry IV (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieva ... |
Lorenzo de' Medici | After the death of | , in 1492, Pico moved to Ferrara, although he continued to visit Florence. ... |
Queen Victoria | 1888. Dracula has married the widowed | , and rules as Prince Consort. A virtual checklist of fictional vampires h ... |
Puyi | ... ented a controversial portrait of Manchukuo through the memories of Emperor | , during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China |
Harold II | ... he petty kingdoms of early medieval Britain. The last Anglo-Saxon monarch ( | ) was defeated and killed in the Norman invasion of 1066 and the English m ... |
Gilbert | ... nkish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king Otto I brought the reigning duke | to heel and incorporated Lotharingia into his realm as one of the "younger ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... the poor had to cope with ever-degrading bronze pieces. Later emperors like | tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on tr ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... ing, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred. | took York in 948, before being driven out by Edred, and when Amlaíb Cuaran ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy | ... 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between | and Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate ... |
Rhadamanthus | After his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers | and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especi ... |
Abdur Rahman Khan | | moved the rebellious Ghilzai Pashtuns from the southern part of the countr ... |
Alberic II of Spoleto | During his pontificate he was subject to | , Prince of the Romans, and did not effectively rule the Papal States. His ... |
duc de Chartres | ... become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the | to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... empire, as they are not mentioned as one of the ancient Iranian tribes that | and Darius I had fought with. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ... |
Eudoxia Lopukhina | ... f Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his first consort | , and Princess Charlotte |
Raúl Castro | ... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting President | to discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ... |
James VI and I | ... of England, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. | , the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark, ... |
Maximilian II of Bavaria | ... dation of Ranke, Sybel accepted the post of professor at Munich, where King | , a generous patron of learning, hoped to establish a school of history. H ... |
Muhammad's | ... of the Arabic word which means "successor" or "representative". Following | death in 632, the early leaders of the Muslim nation were called "Khalifat ... |
David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
Sparta | ... him. Morpheus is his chief minister and prevents noises from waking him. In | , the image of Hypnos was always put near that of death |
Grand Duke Frederick II | ... , spent the rest of his life in retirement. In 1928, following the death of | , he became head of the House of Baden. He died at Salem the following yea ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | The district of Altötting was established in 1837. The current | was born here 1927 in the village of Marktl |
Vasily | ... y 1491, but later Ivan reverted his decision in favor of Sophia's elder son | who was ultimately crowned co-regent with his father (14 April 1502). The ... |
Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
Eglon | ... ral hundred years. Another example may have been the murder of Moabite King | , by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Ma ... |
Cambyses I | ... th. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ancestry as his father was | , who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of Astyag ... |
Frederick II | King | of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Siles ... |
Peleus | ... of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid. By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and | (father of Achilles), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to ... |
Lorenzo de' Medici | ... nce was home to the Medici, one of history's most important noble families. | was considered a political and cultural mastermind of Italy in the late 15 ... |
Pope John Paul II | ====2003==== | stated that "there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for th ... |
shogunate | Initially, the | viewed them as dangerous, and banished them from the cities or restricted ... |
Prokopia | By his wife | , Michael I had at least five children |
David | ... d as a giant Philistine warrior, he is famous for his combat with the young | , the future king of Israel. The fight between them is described in the He ... |
Mao Zedong | ... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by | . When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ... |
Philip II | ... . The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir | . Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the ... |
Justinian I | ... ity of Rome. Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in which | managed to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... l times for the permanent representative of the Frankish king, later of the | , in a palatial domain of the crown (pfalz). Grafio is probably from the G ... |
first emperor | ... n securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of the | of the dynasty. Two qilin statues of this tomb survive in the appropriatel ... |
Justinian II | ... o wear and then only on 'a great public festival of the Lord'". The Emperor | 's son and co-emperor Tiberios (along with Patriarch Kyros, senators, nobl ... |
Alexander Severus | ... the Roman Emperor Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of | . It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for C ... |
Laius | ... e Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of | , of which the story of Oedipus is a part |
Augustus | The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, | prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ... |
Otto I | ... nce between the East and West Frankish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king | brought the reigning duke Gilbert to heel and incorporated Lotharingia int ... |
Charles V | ... 16th century, the Rebellion of the Brotherhoods (a peasant uprising against | 's administration) and the frequent attack of Turkish and Berber pirates c ... |
Princess Anne | ... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 and | in 1950 |
Seleucus's | It is generally thought that Chandragupta married | daughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ... |
Alexander | ... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of | 's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ... |
principality of Wales | ... sh monarchy passed to the Norman conquerors. In the thirteenth century, the | was absorbed by England, and Magna Carta began the process of reducing the ... |
Henry II of England | The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of | that began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ... |
Charles V | ... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor | in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ... |
Charles XII of Sweden | The following year, Stanisław was selected by | after a successful Swedish invasion of Poland, to supersede Augustus II, w ... |
Crispus | On some date between 15 May and 17 June 326, Constantine had his eldest son | , by Minervina, seized and put to death by "cold poison" at Pola (Pula, Cr ... |
Roman Emperor | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the | Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus ... |
Louis XIV | ... held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the times of | . In its place, the United Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful cou ... |
Saul | ... the years that the Ark of the Covenant was moved in the times of Samuel and | . There is no further mention of the menorah in Solomon's temple, except i ... |
Sparta | ... wound around it on which is written a message. The ancient Greeks, and the | ns in particular, are said to have used this cipher to communicate during ... |
Radelchis I | ... year of his imperial coronation and compelled the rival dukes of Benevento, | and Siconulf, to make peace. His mediation split the Lombard duchy and gav ... |
Elagabalus' | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the Roman Emperor | assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is beli ... |
Fausta | ... on" at Pola (Pula, Croatia). In July, Constantine had his wife, the Empress | , killed at the behest of his mother, Helena. Fausta was left to die in an ... |
James I of Aragon | ... sed by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by | |
Shah Jahan | ... t Gosain and Princess Manmati, who gave birth to Prince Khurram, the future | , Jahangir's successor to the throne. The total number of wives in his har ... |
Decian | Following the | persecution of 250–251, there was disagreement about how to treat those wh ... |
Henry VIII | ... k. In 1527, with some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries, | built Southsea Castle and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Nav ... |
Antigonus Monophthalmus | Following his and Lysimachus' victory over | at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over east ... |
Charlemagne | ... e returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. Florence was conquered by | in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The ... |
Babrak Karmal | This expansion prompted | to demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the ... |
Emperor Min of Jin | ... ht Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of Emperor Huai of Jin and | , the country was put into grave danger with the uprising of the northern ... |
Charles IX of France | On May 1, 1561, King | received a lily of the valley as a lucky charm. He decided to offer a lily ... |
Ho Chi Minh | ... Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh forces led by | . The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to ... |
John II of Castile | ... Berlin, was given in 1445 to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos by | ; it was described in the deed of gift as the work of great and famous Fla ... |
James I | ... n Burghley House and Theobalds (which his son, Robert, was to exchange with | for Hatfield House). As the Marquess of Winchester (Burghley's predecessor ... |
Vespasian | ... states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of | and Titus. The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome un ... |
King of Bahrain | ... r term. The upper house, the Shura Council, has 40 members appointed by the | . Among the members of the current Shura Council are representatives of Ba ... |
Demetrius I Soter | Antiochus IV died that same year, and was ultimately succeeded by | , the nephew whose throne he had usurped. Demetrius sent the general Bacch ... |
Darius III of Persia | ... son-in-law, a Persian named Orontobates, received the satrapy of Caria from | |
Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
Abu Bakr | Sunni Muslims believe and confirm that Muhammad's father-in-law | was chosen by the community and that this was the proper procedure. Sunnis ... |
Songtsän Gampo | Buddhism was first introduced to Bhutan in the 7th century AD. Tibetan king | (reigned 627–49), a convert to Buddhism, ordered the construction of two B ... |
Charles IV | ... his elder brother Duke Wenceslaus I of Legnica a 1359 judgement by Emperor | alloted Lubin along with Krzeczyn Wielki, Krzeczyn Mały, Osiek and Pieszkó ... |
Henry VII | ... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426. | rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ... |
Timur | ... he territory to his son, Chagatai and the area became the Chagatai Khanate. | took over the area in 1369 and the area became the Timurid Empire |
Lorenzo de' Medici | ... nnes. Through the intercession of several Italian princes—all instigated by | —King Charles VIII had him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow P ... |
Richard of Gloucester | Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by | , Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ... |
Alexander the Great | ... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. | traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus |
Queen Wilhelmina | ... e to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to | regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention f ... |
King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
Causantín mac Áeda | ... 00–954) was king of Scots (before 943 – 954), becoming king when his cousin | abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín |
Alexander the Great | When | entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ... |
Treniota | ... ossibly renouncing Christianity, and was assassinated in 1263 by his nephew | and another rival, Duke Daumantas. His three immediate successors were ass ... |
Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
Titus | ... t was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of Vespasian and | . The menorah probably remained in the Temple of Peace in Rome until the c ... |
George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
Genghis Khan | ... various times by Turkic forces, such as the Göktürks until the conquest by | and the Mongols in 1220. Genghis Khan gave the territory to his son, Chaga ... |
Constantine | ... depose his son, but failed and fled to the court of Constantius' successor, | (who was both Maximian's step-grandson and also his son-in-law), in Trier. ... |
Louis XV | ... he had the satisfaction of seeing his daughter Maria become the consort of | and queen of France. From 1725 to 1733, Stanisław lived at Chateau Chambor ... |
Alexander | | conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ... |
Valerian | ... 354 speaks of Pope Stephen I as not a martyr. In the year 258, the emperor | began persecuting Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical th ... |
Moctezuma II | ... láhuac was the eleventh son of the ruler Axayacatl and a younger brother of | , the previous ruler of Tenochtitlan. His mother's father, also called Cui ... |
Richard III | Prior to his succession, on 22 June 1483, | declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ... |
Roman Emperor | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the King of Italy and | from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ru ... |
Maria Miloslavskaya | Fyodor was born in Moscow, the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and | . In 1676, at the age of fifteen, he succeeded his father on the throne. H ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince | . The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma |
Fritigern | ... gs as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by | . The battle took place about north of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Europe ... |
Asfa Wossen | ... taged an unsuccessful coup, briefly proclaiming Haile Selassie's eldest son | as emperor. The coup d'état was crushed by the regular army and police for ... |
princess | ... e Thirty Years' War, coupled with the fact that he married a Roman Catholic | , generated deep mistrust concerning the king's dogma. Charles further all ... |
Yang di-Pertua Negeri | The head of the state executive is the | (Governor) appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia). The ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... since 1928, had strong connections to the Vatican Secretary of State, later | . In return for pledging his support for the act, Kaas would use his conne ... |
Lucius Verus | ... e poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders | and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one ... |
Domnall mac Causantín | ... his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of | |
Edmund of Wessex | In 945 | , having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devas ... |
Valens | ... of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor | and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alan ... |
Seleucus | ... new subdivision of the empire with the Partition of Triparadisus in 320 BC. | , who had been "Commander-in-Chief of the camp" under Perdiccas since 323 ... |
Traidenis | ... e successors were assassinated as well. The disorder was not resolved until | gained the title of Grand Duke ca. 1270 |
Halfdan | ... istr's-brother's-daughter"). In chapter 47, the deceased Eystein's son King | dies of an illness, and the excerpt provided in the chapter describes his ... |
Diocletian | ... , the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. The Emperor | is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginnin ... |
Sparta | ... ve been urged. It is also stated that they had common meals, resembling the | n system, at which they met in companies of ten |
Yang di-Pertuan Agong | ... he state executive is the Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) appointed by the | (King of Malaysia). The present Governor is Tun Dato' Seri Haji Abdul Rahm ... |
Adolphus Frederick | ... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after | , seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
Emperor Huai of Jin | ... after the War of the Eight Princes from 291 to 306 AD. During the reigns of | and Emperor Min of Jin, the country was put into grave danger with the upr ... |
Hadrian | Rufinus borrows from his Latin original of | 's letter |
Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
Alaric I | ... he Temple of Peace in Rome until the city was sacked by the Visigoths under | in 410 CE |
Emperor Napoleon III | ... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition to | and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ... |
Jogaila | ... s the only King of Lithuania; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes from | onward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate. Now ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... ition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, | , and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
Liu Chuyu | ... himself emperor Ming. He ordered Liu Ziye's brother Liu Zishang and sister | , who were reputed to have participated in the late emperor's sexual immor ... |
Akbar | In the year 1594 Jahangir's was dispatched by his father the Mughal Emperor | , alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the ... |
Queen Mary | ... th would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, when | , Elizabeth's paternal grandmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed ... |
King Ferdinand IV | ... this period. Napoleon's troops succeeded in entering Naples itself, forcing | to flee the city with his family. For the Maltese this meant that only Bri ... |
Gaius Julius Caesar | ... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which | , the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ... |
Frederick William III | ... ein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussian king | . It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in ... |
Gian Galeazzo Sforza | ... of classical antiquity. He and his third consort, Bona Sforza, daughter of | of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissance culture, which under them began ... |
Casimir IV | ... at they would turn to Lithuania again, he marched against them. Deserted by | and surrounded on every side by the Moscow armies, that occupied the major ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro | In 801 | bagan a new campaign against the Isawa Emishi having moderate success. Fin ... |
Baldwin III of Jerusalem | ... er a five-month siege, the city was captured by a Crusader army led by King | . It was then added to the County of Jaffa to form the County of Jaffa and ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the town's popularity, Leamington was granted a "Royal" prefix in 1838 by | , who visited the town as a Princess in 1830 and as Queen in 1858. A statu ... |
Esarhaddon | ... ole in the development of the Silk Road. Scythians accompanied the Assyrian | on his invasion of Egypt, and their distinctive triangular arrowheads have ... |
Lucius Verus | ... from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and | his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
Muhammad | ... f socialism. Muslim socialists believe that the teachings of the Qur'an and | are compatible with principles of equality and public ownership drawing in ... |
Agrippa II | ... lots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and | , John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long dispu ... |
Adelchis | ... when he was treacherously attacked in his palace, robbed and imprisoned by | , prince of Benevento, in August 871. The landing of fresh bands of Sarace ... |
Euric | ... successors. Among the Visigothic written laws had already been put forth by | . Alaric II put forth a Breviarium of Roman law for his Roman subjects; bu ... |
James III of Scotland | ... arete of Denmark (1456–1486), 13 years old married to the 17 years old King | # Frederick (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later ... |
Emperor Kammu | ... wned that day. The Japanese general Ki no Asami Kosami was "rebuked" by the | when he returned to Kyoto |
Sharif Hussein bin Ali | ... sh India Office. The British Foreign Office had previously begun to support | , Emir of the Hejaz by seconding Lawrence of Arabia in 1915. The Saudi Ikh ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice by | and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ... |
James I | ... le' is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the accession of | in 1406 |
Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba | ... er neighbours and competing with Rwanda. Its greatest growth occurred under | , who ruled the nation from about 1796 to 1850 and saw the kingdom double ... |
King George III | ... known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of | . In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on ... |
Muhammad | ... inspiration from the early madina welfare state established by the Prophet | . Muslim Socialists are more conservative than their western contemporarie ... |
Catherine I | During the reign of | , Peter was quite ignored; but just before her death it became clear to th ... |
Henry VIII | ... ters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry (a parody of | ) and Carry On Dick (a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin), in both ... |
Prince Wilhelm of Baden | Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of | , third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ... |
Emperor Joseph II | ... cademy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784 | granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph. ... |
Henry II of England | ... lanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King | in many ways, not just in financial administration, but also including dip ... |
Odin | Various Germanic peoples highly revered the raven. The major deity | was so associated with ravens throughout history that he gained the kennin ... |
Agrippa I | ... us and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, | and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centur ... |
Artemisia II of Caria | ... of gleaming marble. When he died in 353 BC, his wife, sister and successor, | , began construction of a magnificent tomb for him and herself on a hill o ... |
Ceauşescu | 1984. A covert mission using undead agents to unseat the | regime in Romania |
Edward I | ... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III and | as a base for attacks against France |
Antoninus Pius | ... e date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to | , Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 14 ... |
Peter | ... against Pope Leo and held a Diet at Pavia. He confirmed the usurping regent | as prince of Salerno in December 853, displacing the dynasty he had instal ... |
Charles VI | ... d three-quarters of the nobility were on his side, while his uncle, Emperor | , through the imperial ambassador at Saint Petersburg, persistently urged ... |
Valens | ... and the Breviarium of Eutropius, a handbook compiled in 369 for the Emperor | , which has Constantine dying in a nameless state villa in Nicomedia. From ... |
Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
Manuel I of Portugal | ... d accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America. In 1500, King | sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to Asia |
Bona Sforza | In 1517, Sigismund married | , with whom he had |
Henry V | ... mouth as a threat, the French again sacked the city in 1369, 1377 and 1380. | built the first permanent fortifications of Portsmouth. In 1418 he ordered ... |
Julius Caesar | ... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of | ). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ... |
Princess Margaret | In the early 1950s, his sister-in-law, | , considered marrying a divorced older man, Peter Townsend. The press accu ... |
Justin I | ... the reign of Justinian in 518, which was actually the start of the reign of | , Justinian’s predecessor and uncle. This discrepancy can be seen as part ... |
Henry IV | ... ioned in a document from the King of Germany, and later Holy Roman Emperor, | in 1071. This document granted Görlitz to the Diocese of Meissen, then und ... |
Fulk of Jerusalem | ... as constantly unstable. In response to these incursions into Outremer, King | constructed a number of Christian settlements around the city during the 1 ... |
Domitian | ... stus (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to | (as son of Vespasian). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei fil ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
Severus | ... It was not to be: Constantius and Galerius were promoted to Augusti, while | and Maximin were appointed their Caesars respectively. Constantine and Max ... |
King Arthur | Excalibur is the legendary sword of | , sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful ... |
Domangart Réti | ... omangairt was king of Dál Riata in the early 6th century. He was the son of | and grandson of Fergus Mór. The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, ... |
Pope John Paul II | Of the 232 cardinals that | elevated, four were named in pectore. The identities of three of these wer ... |
John of Gaunt | ... ough his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of Edward III through | and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan Beaufort, Countess of ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... , Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire (a rank bestowed by | on the Leszczyński family) |
Herod the Great | ... , Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, | , Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, ... |
Fergus Mór | ... in the early 6th century. He was the son of Domangart Réti and grandson of | . The Annals of Ulster report his death in 538, 542 and 545, the Annals of ... |
Constantius | ... vasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290. Maximian's subordinate, | , campaigned against Carausius' successor, Allectus, while Maximian held t ... |
Louis XV | ... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King | . The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
Vespasian | ... of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of | ). Augustus used the title "Divi filius", not "Dei filius", and respected ... |
Philip III of Spain | ... f the Inquisition. The New Christians of Portugal breathed more freely when | came to the throne. By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privi ... |
Edward III | ... m to the throne through his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of | through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan ... |
Mahmud of Ghazni | Baloch raiders plundered | 's ambassador between Tabbas and Khabis and in revenge his son, Masud, def ... |
William V, Prince of Orange | The collection of paintings of stadtholder | was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king William I. This collect ... |
Edward III | ... roying much of the town, with only the local church and hospital surviving. | gave the town exemption from national taxes to aid reconstruction. Only te ... |
King Louis XIII | ... 'Ancre, a historical drama recounting the events leading up to the reign of | . Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and beca ... |
Chrysaor | ... of Tartarus and Gaia, while according to Hesiod, either Ceto and Phorcys or | and the naiad Callirhoe were her parents. Another account says her parents ... |
Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... who was born on October 15, 1914, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was the son of | , a senior member of the Barakzai royal family and commander in chief of t ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... schal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by | , and later sacked by the Normans. This also agrees with the earliest know ... |
Paul I | ... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, | , and Alexander II |
Philip II of Spain | Finally, after several years her pleadings by letter with King | secured relief. As a result, in 1579, the processes before the inquisition ... |
Sophia, Electress of Hanover | ... e succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of | , next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. Soon after the ... |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... acidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife | , thus creating a bond between a member of the senatorial aristocracy and ... |
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna | ... lmar Union. He received the power from temporary Swedish regents archbishop | and lord Erik Axelsson Tott. However, Sweden being volatile and split by f ... |
Charles V | :For the lord of Chièvres, advisor to Emperor | , see: William de Croÿ |
Eudocia | The margin of the Empress | 's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ... |
Jeconiah | ... em. Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his son | at an age of either eight or eighteen. The city fell about three months la ... |
Mohammad Najibullah | ... n 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by | , proved unexpectedly capable of holding its own against the mujahideen. B ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband | . The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ... |
King Clovis I | ... ed the first adoption of the fleur-de-lis to the conversion of the Frankish | in 493. The story takes various forms, many of which relate to Clovis' con ... |
Numitor | ... er is sometimes said to be the sole founder. Their maternal grandfather was | , rightful king of Alba Longa, a faithful descendant of the Trojan prince ... |
Yazdegerd III | ... ned the official religion of Persia until the defeat of the Sassanian ruler | —over a thousand years after its founding—by Muslim Arabs. In what is toda ... |
Peter III | ... came to power following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband, | , at the end of the Seven Years' War. Russia was revitalized under her rei ... |
Amlaíb Cuarán | ... new lands for long, dying just two years later in 941. He was succeeded by | |
Theseus | ... zes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and | . Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made ... |
Queen Victoria | On 22 January 1901, | died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as King ... |
Valentinian III | Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor | and of his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of ... |
Croesus | ... sits in the river Pactolus that were the source of the proverbial wealth of | (Lydia's last historical king) were said to have been left there when the ... |
Amphiaraus | Pausanias (author of Periegesis of Greece) wrote this of | in Oropos, Attica, in the 2nd century A.D. |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | The third Druk Gyalpo, | , was enthroned in 1952. Earlier he had married the European-educated cous ... |
Eurystheus | ... o is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after Heracles's death, King | pursues his lifelong vendetta against the hero by hunting down his childre ... |
Henry | ... in October 1216, many began to support the claim of his eldest son, Prince | . War continued between the factions supporting Louis and Henry, with Fitz ... |
Placidia | Olybrius married | , younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife Lici ... |
Pygmalion myth | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to | s: particularly George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name, which also fo ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... r Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, | , Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Count of Paris and the c ... |
Robert III | ... ll of Saint Baldred. A century on Wyntown's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King | , apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards James I) from the Du ... |
Nero | ... the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor | , a great multitude of native Egyptians (as opposed to or Jews) embraced t ... |
Alexander I of Scotland | ... oir, Bishop of Dunkeld. Later tradition placed it back in the reign of King | (1107–24), who probably had some involvement in the island. He was apparen ... |
George I | In 1714, Queen Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, and Sophia's son, | , Elector of Hanover, who consolidated his position by defeating Jacobite ... |
Timur Shah | Ali Shah was another son of | . He seized power for a brief period in 1818-19 |
Jigme Wangchuck | Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, | (reigned 1926–52). The second Druk Gyalpo continued his father's centraliz ... |
Claudius Caesar | ... atement "For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of | , came together and condemned Him to be crucified." This would place the c ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | | died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck (reigned 1926–5 ... |
Helena | ... at is to say, a church of wondrous beauty. Constantine directed his mother, | , to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
Hadrian | ... rebellion. The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor | , including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem; a new Rom ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" in | issues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a l ... |
Guy of Lusignan | ... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, | , king |
Theseus | ... thens, depending on the version of the myth); however, she would later help | in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims. In ... |
George II | In 1737, | began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ... |
Ulpia Severina | Aurelian was married to | , about whom little is known. Like Aurelian she was from Dacia. They are k ... |
King Edward VII | ... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as | . For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ... |
Odin | ... the bird emblem perhaps represents the raven associated with the battle-god | . Noted in Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology 1995:25 and fig. 9. He did ... |
Elizabeth I | ... h literature in the half century 1575 – 1625. For example the 1603 death of | falls in the middle of Shakespeare's career as dramatist: he is both an El ... |
Lady Mary | ... rine of Aragon, Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with | . By 16 February 1543, Catherine had established herself with Mary and was ... |
Queen Caroline | His Paradise Lost (1732), suggested by | , has been criticized as the weakest of his work. He suggested that the po ... |
King Alfonso XIII | ... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of | to Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ... |
Alfonso the Chaste | In 1177, | went to the siege of Al- Madinat kunka (Cuenca) with a group armed and ide ... |
Catherine de' Medici | When Italian duchess | married the duc d’Orléans in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to ... |
Isabella | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, Ferdinand and | established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brotherhood (Santa ... |
Salomea of Berg | ... lklingen. If this parentage is correct, Judith was the great-grandmother of | , second wife of (her later stepson) |
Manco Cápac | ... and his nephews in their latest treasure hunt - locating a hidden temple of | , who was the legendary founder of the Inca dynasty. The temple is hidden ... |
Aureolus | ... e Battle of Naissus. Later that year Gallienus traveled to Italy and fought | , his former general and now usurper for the throne. Driving Aureolus back ... |
Ferdinand | As one of their first acts after the war of succession, | and Isabella established the centrally organized and efficient Holy Brothe ... |
Archidamus | ... d an audacious night-time march on Sparta itself. However, the Spartan king | was alerted to this move by an informant, probably a Cretan runner, and Ep ... |
Árpád | ... settlement was established in 1896 by Hungarians, under the name Árpádhon ( | , the leader of the Hungarian tribes and -hon as home(land)) |
Saladin | ... such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and | , Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one of the great ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... 7, when India gained independence from the British rule, Thrissur was under | . Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at T ... |
Midas | ... historical king) were said to have been left there when the legendary king | of Phrygia washed away the "Midas touch" in its waters |
Wang Mang | ... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
Philip II | ... nds above every other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings | and Alexander the Great are included), although modern historians have que ... |
King Philip II Augustus | ... y names. King John lost all his territories in mainland Normandy in 1204 to | , but retained possession of Jersey and the other Channel Islands. The isl ... |
Charles I of England | ... efs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets. One hundred years later, | was, it was reported, so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered hi ... |
Herod the Great | ... is mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of | , that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prop ... |
King Henry | ... elf with Mary and was now part of her household. It was in the household of | and Catherine of Aragon's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... s of the Bavaria, Brazil, Parma, Saxony and the Two Sicilies. The late Lady | (1961-1997) is a descendant of Lucrezia |
George II | ... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch, | , witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ... |
Frederick William II of Prussia | ... ly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs. It was commissioned by King | as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. ... |
Queen Maud | ... in, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of King Haakon VII and | (George's sister) |
Demophon | ... gs and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by | , the king |
Julian | ... nt, most other sources report his death as occurring in its middle. Emperor | , writing in the mid-350s, observes that the Sassanians escaped punishment ... |
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II of Belgium, | , as well as the Count of Paris and the claimants to the Thrones of the Ba ... |
Henry III | In the 13th century, Kings | (1216–1272) and Edward I (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially crea ... |
Alexander of Pherae | ... e to a petition of the Thessalians, Pelopidas was sent with an army against | . After driving Alexander out, he passed into Macedon and arbitrated betwe ... |
Livia | ... y in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans. | had an estate there, according to Suetonius. The city under Roman control, ... |
King Haakon VII | ... r returning to Britain, May and George went to Norway for the coronation of | and Queen Maud (George's sister) |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
Ninus | ... ent that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and | in their list of kings of Lydia. Strabo (5.2.2) makes Atys, father of Lydu ... |
Richard III of England | ... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun. | increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ... |
Theseus | ... of "heavenly" Dia, fathered either by Ixion or by Zeus. His best friend was | . In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus "of heroic fame" among ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened by | on 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ... |
Emperor Maximilian | ... y of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of | , while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Ma ... |
Jehoiakim | ... d been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother, | . Necho imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver (about 3 3/ ... |
Muhammad | ... onfederation, and Muslims from all over western China who chose it to honor | . Nonetheless, however tenuous these bonds sometimes are, it remains a min ... |
Alexander the Great | ... wenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by | . Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and lib ... |
Albert | ... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, | , Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Emperor Wu | ... of the Great Wall for additional goods. In a court conference assembled by | (r. 141–87 BCE) in 135 BCE, the majority consensus of the ministers was to ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and | . The former visit came amidst an historical setting after the fall of com ... |
Henry I of France | ... n 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to Philip, eldest son and heir of King | . However, the engagement was broken in September 1058, when her brother E ... |
Gundobad | ... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew | |
Hadrian | ... nd 985 villages razed. Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor | , when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the cu ... |
Kublai Khan | ... g to do with ice cream. It has also been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty, | enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited Chin ... |
James II's Catholic son | ... rotestant officials, James fled the realm and William and Mary (rather than | ) were declared joint Sovereigns of England, Scotland and Ireland |
Napoleon III | ... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to | (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau |
Sparta | ... loponnesian League. Henceforth, its policy was usually determined either by | or Corinth |
Alexander the Great | ... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of | but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ... |
Hilderic | | (523–530) was the Vandal king most tolerant towards the Catholic Church. H ... |
Acastus | Laodamia was the wife of Protesilaus and daughter of | and Astydameia. After Protesilaus was killed in the Trojan War he was allo ... |
Theseus | ... ven or nine years to the Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included | , the son of King Aegeus, who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. A ... |
Edward I | In the 13th century, Kings Henry III (1216–1272) and | (1272–1307) extended the castle, essentially creating it as it stands toda ... |
Ahmad Shah Durrani | ... Pakistan, and northwestern India. It was established at Kandahar in 1747 by | , an Afghan military commander under Nader Shah of Persia and chief of the ... |
Elizabeth I | ... travelled to France as part of the embassy to negotiate a marriage between | and the Duc D'Alençon. He spent the next several years in mainland Europe, ... |
Gelimer | ... amily led a revolt, raising the banner of national Arianism, and his cousin | (530–533) became king. Hilderic, Hoamer and their relatives were thrown in ... |
King George III | ... he independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against | , and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of ... |
Aegeus | ... Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included Theseus, the son of King | , who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. Ariadne fell in love at f ... |
Edmund I of England | ... siege by Anglo-Saxons, raiders who did not care about the treaty that King | and King Malcolm I of Scotland signed in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arr ... |
Romulus Augustulus | ... overthrow of the rebellious magister militum Orestes and his pretender son | in 476. In the East Theodosius II also barred the eunuchs from holding it, ... |
James IV | In 1497 King | visited the Bass and stayed in the castle with a later Sir Robert Lauder o ... |
Ratchis | ... y Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel | ;, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Paul the De ... |
Aegisthus | In Greek mythology, Aletes was the son of | and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae. He had two sisters: Erigo ... |
Gallienus | ... is successes as a cavalry commander ultimately made him a member of emperor | ' entourage. In 268, Aurelian and his cavalry participated in general Clau ... |
Henry | ... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, | , George, and John |
Pope John Paul II | ... re chanting in Skanderbeg Square Baker's famous saying of "Freedom works!". | became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Ter ... |
Owen I of Strathclyde | ... aíb married the daughter of Causantín mac Áeda. He also allied himself with | . In 937, Amlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of Eng ... |
Manuel II Palaiologos | ... od. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced the Byzantine emperor | that Plethon's support for Plato amounted to heresy. Manuel had Plethon co ... |
Tiberius | ... pium Augustum Veiens. Veii is famous for its statuary including a statue of | (now in the Vatican), and the Apollo of Veii (now in the National Etruscan ... |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | ... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on | 's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ... |
Sisyphus | ... he absurd. In the titular book, Camus uses the analogy of the Greek myth of | to demonstrate the futility of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is condemn ... |
Edward V | ... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. | 's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... and in 1510 the Venetians obtained sixteen pounds per hundred. In 1507 the | asked the Duke of Bavaria to stop cutting yew, but the trade was profitabl ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
Athelstan of England | ... m 934 to 941. Gofraid ua Ímair, his father, held both Dublin and York until | expelled him from York in 927 |
Agesilaus II | | was one of the two kings of Sparta during Sparta’s hegemony. Plutarch late ... |
Semiramis | According to one fictional account, | , a mythical Assyrian queen, was afraid that the women of the household wo ... |
Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg | ... a (who also died in infancy). In addition, Judith had an older half-sister, | and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of De ... |
Justinian I | ... it, although this restriction had been overturned by the 6th century. Under | (r. 527-565), the title proliferated and was consequently somewhat devalue ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues, | |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... r the Srirangapattanam war. In the meantime, Rama Varma X, the successor of | signed a treaty with East Indian Company, and made Cochin a subsidiary of ... |
King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by | 's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ... |
Sparta | ... C who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of | n subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. In the process ... |
Malcolm I of Scotland | ... rs who did not care about the treaty that King Edmund I of England and King | signed in 945. Sir Eider did not supply arrows for his men (because they w ... |
Sparta | ... tury BC, when Dorian supremacy was re-established, perhaps by the agency of | under the ephor Chilon, and the city was enrolled in the Peloponnesian Lea ... |
Constantine II | ... the Holy Apostles there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, | , Constantius II and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by follow ... |
John | ... imple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and | |
King Gylfi | ... nning, where it is described partially in euhemerized form. In the chapter, | sets out to Asgard in the guise of an old man going by the name of Gangler ... |
Theodore Laskaris | ... uccessor states, the most notable of these being the Empire of Nicaea under | (a relative of Alexios III), the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of ... |
James I | ... n 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to his son James (afterwards | ) from the Duke of Albany, placed the youthful prince in the safe-custody ... |
Anna d'Este | ... dern Europe including that of the United Kingdom. Through her granddaughter | , Duchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestres ... |
Charles V | ... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor | . Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ... |
Cosimo de' Medici | ... of social importance. Following the example of Pomponio Leto in Rome and of | at Florence, Pontano founded an academy for the meetings of learned and di ... |
Thirty Tyrants | ... ng Lysander to establish shortly the oligarchy that has come to be known as | , composed of men beholden to him. The danger of so much power being in th ... |
Emperor Julian | ... ated succession. He also had two daughters, Constantina and Helena, wife of | |
Totila | ... le for western monasticism. There at Monte Cassino he received a visit from | , king of the Ostrogoths, perhaps in 543 (the only remotely secure histori ... |
Theodosius II | ... ilitum Orestes and his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the East | also barred the eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had bee ... |
Edward IV | ... Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time in 1470. However, | soon regained control and Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, ... |
Justinian I | Byzantine Emperor | declared war, with the stated intention of restoring Hilderic to the Vanda ... |
King George III | ... e usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of | |
Boudica | ... eni revolted against the Roman invasion in 47 AD, and again in 60 AD led by | . The crushing of the second rebellion opened the county to the Romans. Du ... |
Fëanor | ... e later largely replaced by the Tengwar (which were enhanced and brought by | ), they were adopted by Dwarves to write down their Khuzdul language (Ange ... |
Emperor Wen | ... the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu (r. 174–160 BCE) and | (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu su ... |
Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
Eric V of Denmark | ... nt Danish throne, as king Christian I. He was a cognatic descendant of King | through his second daughter Richeza. The throne was first offered by the S ... |
King of Bahrain | ... ework of a constitutional monarchy where the government is appointed by the | , King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The head of the government since 1971 is ... |
Charles XIII | ... Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and | . In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of ... |
Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
Ranavalona III | ... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen | of Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ... |
Blot-Sweyn | ... Swedish king Inge the Elder fled to Västergötland when deposed in favour of | , a king more favourable towards Norse paganism, in the 1080s. Inge would ... |
Baldwin of Flanders | ... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed | on the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... s daughters from his first two marriages, who later became Queen Mary I and | . She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son Edward, Prince o ... |
Huayna Capac | ... 1576 on the foundations of the Amarucancha or the palace of the Inca ruler | , is considered one of the best examples of colonial baroque style in the ... |
Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
Quintillus | When Claudius died, his brother | seized power with support of the Senate. With an act typical of the Crisis ... |
Simon de Montfort | ... were becoming dangerously unruly. In 1258, the discontented barons, led by | , forced the King to agree to reforms including holding regular parliament ... |
Louis XIV | ... he Nine Years' War. In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding | ’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck’s Allied force ... |
Philip II | ... Thebes, he brought home hostages, including the king's brother, afterwards | . Philip learned there many tactics of the southern Greeks, both in politi ... |
Heraclius | ... ncreasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor | (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certa ... |
Henry VIII | The political separation of the Church of England from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1536, brought England alongside this ... |
Boudica | ... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of | 's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ... |
Maximilian Joseph | ... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, | , the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ... |
Louis the German | ... to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom of | which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son | , later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Hort ... |
Minamoto no Yoriie | ... celebrating his nomination to Udaijin. His nephew (the son of second shogun | ) Kugyō (Minamoto no Yoshinari) came out from next to the stone stairway o ... |
Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ... |
Hákon Hákonarson | ... s Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King | at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was sub ... |
Afonso V | ... na"), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of | , St. Joana, who died in 1490. The presence of this royal personage, beati ... |
George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | In 1636 | , ruler of the Brunswick-Lüneburg principality of Calenberg, moved his res ... |
Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... eneralitat, Pau Claris, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of | . This allowed French troops to draw that much closer to the heartland of ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | The choice of Sophia as wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar | , resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestoc ... |
King George II | ... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to | –making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ... |
William IV | ... reign, the power of the monarchy declined and by the time of his successor, | , the monarch was no longer able to effectively interfere with parliamenta ... |
Rædwald of East Anglia | ... the church beyond Kent encountered difficulties due to the attitude of King | , who had become the leading king in the south after Æthelberht's death. R ... |
Agis II | ... began his kingship after the end of the Peloponnesian war after his brother | died and was left without an heir. (Agis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to b ... |
Charles VII | ... burg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of | , fought side by side with the French, and by the Treaty of Pressburg, sig ... |
Gustav III | ... n") in Stettin, Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: | and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the rul ... |
Constantius III | ... to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, | , Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize ... |
Procopius Anthemius | ... s were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble | . His association with Gaiseric did not harm Olybrius' career: in 464 the ... |
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... Matilda (later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking), | and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (who also died in infancy). In addition, Ju ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy, | , who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ... |
Queen Mary | ... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowager | reportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ... |
Conan the Barbarian | ... magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of | (1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature (1975) befor ... |
Leotychidas | ... war after his brother Agis II died and was left without an heir. (Agis’ son | was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Athenian Alcibiades.) One of ... |
Louis XIV | ... to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King | (the Sun King), then France would in fact have the same population as the ... |
Justinian | ... Procopius writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of | , who had not yet come to the throne", noting that Hilderic and Justinian ... |
James VII | Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass for | for a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ... |
King Vanlandi | ... the 10th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir describing that, upon his death, | went to Valhalla |
Edward II | ... and Aylsham webb or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of | and III |
Alexander the Great | ... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, | , and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ... |
Odoacer | ... tilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to | to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his overthrow of the rebelli ... |
Augustus | ... imen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to Caesar's murderers and to | hardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day. The only pa ... |
Robert the Bruce | ... ted chevauchée raids over the enemy territory to damage its infrastructure. | counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English King Ed ... |
Richard | ... d Edward was confined to the Tower of London along with his younger brother | . The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in July. The prin ... |
Calydonian Oeneus | ... mably the eponym of Hyria. He is also called Oeneus, although he is not the | . Other ancient scholia say, as Hesiod does, that Orion was the son of Pos ... |
Cyrus the Great | To ensure that the new conquered peoples did not revolt, | showed respect to their customs and allowed them to continue to practice t ... |
Joachim Murat | ... ed to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of Italy, and | , who called for Italian patriots' help for the unification of Italy under ... |
Otto I | In 953 the German king | had appointed his brother Bruno the Great Duke of Lotharingia |
Stenkil | ... the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of Emund the Old. | , a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be influential i ... |
Queen Caroline | ... the royal family continued, and Sarah was occasionally invited to court by | , who attempted to cultivate her friendship |
Aistulf | ... of Charles Martel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King | ; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards |
Philip V of Spain | ... between 1700 and 1720. After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714, | briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assi ... |
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor | She was the daughter of | by his second wife Agnes, daughter of William V, Duke of Aquitaine and Cou ... |
Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign of | as Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
Pol Pot | ... Tensions peaked when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, an ally of China, to depose | , resulting in a Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. In 1978-79, some 450 ... |
King Edward's | ... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English | forces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ... |
Thoas | ... er of Oenopion, the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), | , Peparethus, Phanus, Eurymedon, Enyeus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramy ... |
Prince Henry | ... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young | |
King William | Once again | entrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ... |
Germanicus | ... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, | |
Alexios V | ... rangled to death in January 1204. Alexios Doukas took the throne himself as | ; Isaac also died in January 1204, probably of natural causes |
Gisulf II of Benevento | In 744, a donation of | created the Terra Sancti Benedicti, the secular lands of the abbacy, which ... |
James I | During the 15th century | consigned several of his political enemies, including Walter Stewart to Th ... |
Croesus | In 547 BC, the Lydian king | besieged and captured the Persian city of Pteria in Cappadocia and enslave ... |
Kujō Yoritsune | Minamoto no Sanetomo was succeeded by | as fourth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate |
Alexander the Great | ... h not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare, | undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the ... |
Julian | In the year AD 363, the Emperor | 's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy |
Alexander III | ... e defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to | . Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking des ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of | . He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... efeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king | |
James I of England | ... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King | for a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... tion of the Congregation for Rites on the application to local calendars of | 's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 July 1960 decreed that "the fe ... |
Edward II's | During | reign (1307–1327) there was relatively little activity at the Tower of Lon ... |
Alfonso X of Castile | ... clopaedia Britannica on Astronomy during the 1960s, in a discussion of King | 's interest in astronomy during the 13th century. (Alfonso is credited wit ... |
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna | ... almar Union. In Sweden his short tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, | and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa. Also ... |
Nur ad-Din Zangi | After the failure of the Second Crusade, | had control of Damascus and a unified Syria |
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | ... nal monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King | . The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa b ... |
emperor | ... sulship in 434 after campaigning in Africa. However, Aspar could not become | because of his Arian religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker wi ... |
Catherine | He married | (as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. They ... |
Agamemnon | ... ginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus. The penultimate king of the list, | , compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... of Anjou in Palermo, and the invasion of the Sicily by the Catalans of King | . Michael VIII was forced to drain the treasury to pay the enormous bribe ... |
Genghis Khan | | , leader of the Mongols in the 13th century AD, united his people to event ... |
Henry VIII | ... ders have been the Royal Bodyguard since at least 1509. During the reign of | , the Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In ... |
Justinian | ... ius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor | . Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought ... |
Lady Jane Grey | ... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place | on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ... |
Frederick V, Elector Palatine | ... the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and | |
Alexander the Great | ... rsians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by | . Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Ly ... |
Bolesław | ... ey wanted an eventual alliance with the only legitimate son of Władysław I, | , born from his first marriage with the Bohemian princess |
Frederick | # | (1471–1533), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King o ... |
Peter I of Russia | During the war, | had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish ... |
Minos | ... ] "most" and αδνος [adnos] "holy"), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of | king of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. ... |
Servius Tullius | In the 6th century BC Rome's sixth king | warred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the Etrusca ... |
Gustav Vasa | Småland, is a province of Sweden and at the funeral of | in 1560 the province was granted its arms. Today there are also county arm ... |
Marcian | ... for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over Theodosius II, | and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed |
Johan III | ... tured a red crossbow with roses on a golden shield but at the coronation of | in 1569 a new coat of arms was granted. A lion was wielding the crossbow a ... |
Lady Mary | ... . It was in the household of King Henry and Catherine of Aragon's daughter, | , that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the King. After the death of ... |
Commodus | ... the prow of a boat;" Gisela Richter noted coins of Elaeus from the time of | that show on their reverses Protesilaus on the prow of a ship, in helmet, ... |
Charlemagne | ... o have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace of | from Ingelheim to Heidelberg |
George V | On 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as | , and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ... |
Cosimo de' Medici | ... o exercise over Western European thought in the high and later middle ages. | attended these lectures and was inspired to found the Accademia Platonica ... |
Shapur | ... s for a campaign against Persia. In a letter written to the king of Persia, | , Constantine had asserted his patronage over Persia's Christian subjects ... |
Alexis of Russia | ... town rights. In the 17th century, during the Russo–Swedish War initiated by | , the Russians captured Daugavpils, renamed the town Borisoglebsk and cont ... |
Queen Victoria | ... called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother, | . Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at Westminster Abbe ... |
Dionysius of Syracuse | ... After an abortive attack on Corinth and the arrival of a task force sent by | to aid Sparta, the Thebans decided to march home. Diodorus, XV, ; Xenophon ... |
Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
Alcmaeon | ... is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus. But | , because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple o ... |
Emund the Old | ... e 11th century, the Swedish House of Munsö became extinct with the death of | . Stenkil, a Geat, was elected king of Sweden, and the Geats would be infl ... |
James I | ... anor. The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, before | assigned it to his son, the future Charles I |
George III | ... ic Stuarts were completely defeated. During the long reign of his grandson, | , Britain's American colonies were lost, the former colonies having formed ... |
John Hyrcanus | ... s sons Judas Maccabeus, Jonathan Apphus, and Simon Thassi, and his grandson | . The books include historical and religious material from the Septuagint ... |
William I of Scotland | ... of the richest in Scotland, but that changed in 1189. He was asked by King | to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King Richard I of ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... a diplomat as much as an officer. He foils an assassination attempt on Tsar | and is influential in the monarch's decision to resist the French invasion ... |
Pope John Paul II | | , following his personalist philosophy, considered that a danger of utilit ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | King | appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ... |
John III Doukas Vatatzes | ... chael VIII Palaiologos married Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, a grandniece of | , Emperor of Nicaea. Orphaned in childhood, she was raised by her great-un ... |
Charles I | ... changed hands many times, before James I assigned it to his son, the future | |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
Odin | When | was exiled, Ollerus was chosen to take his place. Ollerus ruled under the ... |
Tiberius | ... thor of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of | (14 AD to 37 AD) |
Shuja Shah | ... hmud Shah's first reign lasted for only two years before he was replaced by | |
Pharaoh | ... chadnezzar, ceasing to pay tribute to him and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again ... |
Sigurd the Crusader | ... National Theatre, Bjørnson received an ovation, and his saga-drama of King | was performed at the opening of Nationaltheatret in Oslo |
George IV | ... orphyria, an illness rendering him incapable of ruling. His son, the future | , ruled in his stead as Prince Regent. During the Regency and his own reig ... |
Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with | , the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ... |
Olof Skötkonung | ... tland, and about Olaf the Holy's battles with the Geats during his war with | |
Richard I of England | ... I of Scotland to offer most of his clan's treasure in order to fulfill King | 's terms for a treaty that been signed between them. The treaty said that ... |
Charles IV | On 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king, | and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ecuted Artayctes, returning the treasure. The tomb was mentioned again when | arrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire. He offered a ... |
Roman Emperor | ... oman fort and bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of the | Hadrian who founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aeliu ... |
Augustus | ... he king” (Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of | , Alexander the Great, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Light ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... and started the most spectacular cultural festival called Thrissur Pooram. | laid the modern foundation stone of Thrissur and made the city in to a maj ... |
Queen Isabella | ... became the first woman imprisoned in the Tower of London after she refused | admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered her archers to fire upon Isabella, ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager | . Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ... |
Hadrian | ... bridge across the River Tyne and given the family name of the Roman Emperor | who founded it in the 2nd century AD. The population of Pons Aelius at thi ... |
King George III | ... d the king for repeal of the acts. These measures were unsuccessful because | and the ministry of Prime Minister Lord North were determined not to retre ... |
Mary Stuart | ... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy of | in Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ... |
John | # | (1455–1513), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Hol ... |
Constantine the Great | The First Council of Nicea was convened by | upon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Córdoba in the Easter ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queen | in 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ... |
Queen Mary I | ... ing Henry with his daughters from his first two marriages, who later became | and Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's ... |
Belus | In Greek mythology, Lybie (, Lubiē; often written Lybië) was the mother of | by Poseidon and a personification and queen of the country of Libya. Some ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ish contingent under the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly | Frederick Barbarossa responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army ... |
Alyattes II | ... ginning of the reign of King Alyattes (sometimes incorrectly referred to as | ), who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC. The first coins were made of electrum, a ... |
Louis XIV | ... United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of | or Napoleon, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 re ... |
Sparta | Upon the seizure of the Theban citadel by the | ns (383 or 382) he fled to Athens, and took the lead in a conspiracy to li ... |
Lothair II | ... r Lotharingia was an independent Carolingian kingdom under the rule of King | (855–869). Its territory had originally been a part of Middle Francia, cre ... |
Wang Mang | ... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when | (r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ... |
Zbigniew | ... onvinced her husband to postpone the return of Władysław I's first-born son | , who seems to be a strong candidate to the succession despite his illegit ... |
Desta Damtew | ... Shum of Sidamo Province by Birru Wolde Gabriel who himself was replaced by | |
Claudius | ... d had not been since its defeat by the Carians. In 43 AD the Roman emperor, | , dissolved the league. Lycia was incorporated into the Roman Empire with ... |
Theodosius II | ... Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over | , Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed |
Philip II of Spain | ... rtuguese in 1641 while Spain began to colonize the Philippines (named after | ) from 1560s. Acting through the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch estab ... |
Tarquinius Superbus | ... Roman colony at an early date—according to some authorities in the time of | ,—but more probably about 390 BC. The existence of a previous population, ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of | |
Caesar | ... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to | 's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ... |
Mahmud Shah | ... arakzai followers to a rival claimant to the throne, Zaman's older brother, | . The clans of the chiefs Zaman had executed joined forces with the rebels ... |
Henry VIII | In 1519 | granted a market on Saturdays and an annual fair to be held on March 12, w ... |
Prince of Wales | ... of Bute (1713–92) his architect William Burges (1827–1881) and the present | and Princess Margaret |
King Mohamed VI | Policies associated with foreign relations are determined by the king, | , and his advisors, despite the fact that Morocco has a constitutional mon ... |
Charles V of France | ... ose to the original. It is found in the inventory of 1373 of the library of | . Furthermore, according to the illuminations, it can be dated to the year ... |
Joan Enric Vives Sicília | ... twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 has been | . This role carries with it the position of joint head of state of Andorra |
Charlemagne | ... terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as | 's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning ... |
Henry IV | ... ttacked unsuccessfully by the Protestants in 1568, and was taken in 1591 by | , who was crowned there three years afterwards |
Pope Paul VI | ... s canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by | . Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American, | , even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ... |
Emperor Jing | ... s well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, and | ), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, who is considered ... |
St. Helena | Scholars debate whether Constantine adopted his mother | 's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the ... |
Leucippus | ... nt lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, | (son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. ... |
William II | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 1097 King | ordered a wall to be built around the Tower of London; it was probably bui ... |
King Philip II's | ... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command of | illegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ... |
Edward of Portugal | ... the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King | , whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... when he was collector of Thrissur district. He is also known as the second | of Thrissur by shifting the Municipal Stand near the M.O. Road to Shaktan ... |
Theodoric II | ... n 455 Avitus had sent an ambassador, comes Fronto, to the Suebi and then to | to ask them formally to recognise Roman rule. When the Suebi invaded the R ... |
Henry III | ... death in 1216. She had five children by the king including his heir, later | . In 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by who ... |
Edward III | ... Tower and release the prisoners held there. For three years he ruled while | was too young to do so himself; in 1330, Edward and his supporters capture ... |
Aragorn | ... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of | . The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ... |
King Charles VII | ... ntil 1801, when George III abandoned his formal claim to the French throne. | ennobled Joan of Arc's family on 29 December 1429 with an inheritable symb ... |
Edmund the Martyr | ... e region again came under attack, this time from Danes who killed the king, | . In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of ... |
Philip IV | ... the mayor was assassinated and noble residences in the city were pillaged. | reimposed order and suppressed the city's charter and the lucrative monopo ... |
Widukind | ... , grew up in the abbey of Herford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader | . In Herford she met Henry the Fowler, who later became king of Germany |
Prince Justinian | ... m Pope Leo II to Constantine IV in 682. He met and developed a rapport with | , the heir apparent to the Byzantine throne, on both occasions |
Grace Kelly | ... televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by | for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly c ... |
Edward VII | ... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future | and George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ... |
Vima Kadphises | ... an, to subdue Kashgar and its ally Sogdiana. When a request by Kushan ruler | (r. c. 90–c. 100 CE) for a marriage alliance with the Han was rejected in ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The founder of the empire, | , confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by Seleucus I in 305 BC and f ... |
Maurice of Saxony | ... y. In 1552 a number of insurgent Protestant Imperial princes around Elector | by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King Henry II of F ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned | as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married ... |
Maximilian I | ... visited Charles of Burgundy, acting as intermediary between him and emperor | . He stayed in Burgundy for several months, moving to the Netherlands in t ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by | , following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ... |
John | ... 1188 – 31 May 1246) was queen consort of England as the second wife of King | from 1200 until John's death in 1216. She had five children by the king in ... |
Princess Alexandra of Kent | ... Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal granduncle) | ;(his 1st cousin once removed); the Earl of Euston; the Lord Elphinstone ( ... |
Christian III | ... The next year, following his victory in the Count's War, he became king as | and continued the reformation of the state church with assistance of Johan ... |
Melampus | ... hology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos (see | for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Tal ... |
Elizabeth II | ... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen | . The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ... |
Louis X of France | ... 1309 to her son, Louis, king of Navarre and count of Champagne, the future | |
Emperor Ming | ... r Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, | , and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and Xiao Zhuang, ... |
Frederick I | Under the reign of | (1523–33), Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederic ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... igismund to Basel. After over a year of negotiations, Sigismund was crowned | on 31 May 1433 by Pope Eugenius IV, with Oswald probably in attendance |
Henry III | ... ant political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor | . He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the z ... |
Gilgamesh | ... 0 years. It is also listed among the foods of ancient Ur, and the legend of | describes people eating cucumbers. Some sources also state it was produced ... |
Conrad II | ... mily was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor | (1024–1039). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon a ... |
Charles of Burgundy | ... which would be created in 1478 or 1479. In the autumn same year he visited | , acting as intermediary between him and emperor Maximilian I. He stayed i ... |
Lorenzo | ... eded by his son Piero, who was, soon after, succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, | in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Mi ... |
Philip II of France | ... pture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, Henry II of England and | ended their conflict with each other to lead a new crusade (although Henry ... |
Emperor Yingzong of Song | In 1064, Sima presented to | a book of five volumes , the Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"). I ... |
Ming | ... emi-legendary account of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor | (58–75 CE). Extensive contacts however started in the 2nd century CE, prob ... |
Louis XIV | ... t was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by Francis I. After the time of | the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary in the family of Orléans |
Teucer | ... ean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where | is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor. Ar ... |
Archidamus III | ... off after Sparta’s defeat at Leuctra. Following Agesilaus’ death in 360 BC, | became king and practiced a policy of non-conflict between Athens and the ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met | , who later became king of Germany |
Prince of Wales | ... spite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the | know the Pimpernel's true identity. Like many others, Marguerite is entran ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
Haakon I of Norway | ... hout the assistance of the Swedish king Erik Emundsson. He also wrote about | 's expedition into Götaland and Harold I of Denmark's battle against Jarl ... |
Alexander I | In 1812 Czar | was able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ... |
Charles V | ... n Alsace, east of Lorraine. In 1670, the French invaded again, forcing Duke | to flee to a Viennese exile, where he formed strong ties to the Imperial H ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
Melampus | In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of | who received one third of Argos (see Melampus for more information). Bias ... |
Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
Frederick III | ... Ribe 5 March 1460 (Treaty of Ribe). In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperor | elevated Christian I as Count of Holstein to Duke of Holstein, thus becomi ... |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... 3, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell, against the king | |
Pope John Paul II | ... an, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of | who died two years later |
Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named | |
Isabella | To support | 's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government de ... |
Princess Beatrice | ... itish or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child, | , was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Bea ... |
Boniface of Montferrat | | , meanwhile, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his ... |
Theodahad | ... ingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to | as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpretation, howe ... |
King John | ... June 1202, by which time she was already queen of England. Her marriage to | took place on 24 August 1200, at Bordeaux, a year after he annulled his fi ... |
Maximilian I | ... it is no coincidence either that the reign of his nationalistic predecessor | saw the beginning of the movement. While the centralized states of western ... |
Constantine I | ... ed in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor | in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain co ... |
Al-Walid I | In 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad, under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph | , led a large army from the north coast of Morocco on April 29 711. The ar ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... 4, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and | as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilia ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
Philip IV of France | Jeanne of Navarre, wife of | (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' ... |
Emperor Shenzong of Song | ... n 1067, Sima was invited to the palace to introduce his work in progress to | . The new emperor not only confirmed the interest his father had shown, bu ... |
Piero | ... pope also contributed to their ascendancy. Cosimo was succeeded by his son | , who was, soon after, succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo in 1469. Lo ... |
Edward III | ... rative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of Edward I and | , collection of ship money had been authorised only during wars, and only ... |
Alexios Angelos | ... id excommunication, or he may have wanted to meet with the Byzantine prince | , Philip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine em ... |
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... the collection of the Uffizi. For Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, brother of | and a scholar and patron of the arts, he began as bookkeeper in 1664 and d ... |
Henry II of England | ... stian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, | and Philip II of France ended their conflict with each other to lead a new ... |
The emperor | ... the lost revenue was recouped through heavily taxing private entrepreneurs. | was at the pinnacle of Han society. He presided over the Han government bu ... |
Henry I | The death in 1135 of | left England with a disputed succession; although the king had persuaded h ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when | fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ... |
Rory O'Connor | ... 170, King Dermot MacMurrough of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King | of Connacht. Dermot escaped to England and asked Henry for help. Henry let ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing General | in Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the |
Edward I | ... ular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. Under statutes of | and Edward III, collection of ship money had been authorised only during w ... |
Prince Edward | ... till alive. Catherine retired from court after the crowning of her step-son | on 31 January 1547, to her home at Old Manor in Chelsea |
George V | ... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and | ) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ... |
Decebalus | ... aru, Piatra Roşie, Băniţa and Căpâlna - that formed the defensive system of | were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, as well as the se ... |
Charles V | Though | fought the Reformation, it is no coincidence either that the reign of his ... |
Ptolemy V Epiphanes | ... wrested control of Israel from the Ptolemies for the final time, defeating | at the Battle of Panium in 198 BCE. Seleucid rule over the Jewish parts of ... |
Beatrice | ... trice, was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter | ). As the child of the sovereign, Prince Andrew was styled from birth as H ... |
Pharaoh | ... circumcision" (Type III) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the | s, and "fibula" (in "infibulation") refers to the Roman practice of pierci ... |
Leopold III, Duke of Austria | The Battle of Sempach in 1386, in which | was defeated by the Old Swiss Confederacy had important repercussions on T ... |
King Charles I | ... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts with | to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ... |
Charles the Bold | ... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories over | of Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries |
Justinian II | ... ntificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with | on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. Constantine was the last p ... |
Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
Fidel Castro | ... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of | , they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans |
Erik Axelsson Tott | ... om temporary Swedish regents archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and lord | . However, Sweden being volatile and split by factions (benefits of union ... |
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | In 1067, he had been considered as a possible husband for the empress | , widowed wife of Constantine X, but she eventually set her heart on Roman ... |
Aurangzeb | The Mughal power in northern India had been declining since the reign of | , who died in 1707; In 1751-52, Ahamdiya treaty was signed between the Mar ... |
Melampus | ... veral daughters. According to Pausanias, Amythaon is the father of Bias and | . Their mother was Idomene, daughter o |
King Henry VII | ... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of | |
Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
Philip II Augustus of France | ... nsept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower. On 24 June 1204, | entered Rouen and annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom. The fall of Roue ... |
Baal-Eser/Balazeros | ... in 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) or | (Greek form of the name), Dido’s grandfather. This lends credibility to th ... |
Manuel I | ... e modern flag of Portugal and has been a national symbol since the reign of | |
Mary | ... e of flux. Following a brief Roman Catholic restoration during the reign of | 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of Elizabeth I, th ... |
Manuel II | ... zation, the zenith of Greek influence, In his 1415 and 1418 pamphlets urged | and his son Theodore to turn the peninsula into a cultural island with a n ... |
Ariarathes | ... ucid king: Demetrius defeated and killed Timarchus in 160 BC, and dethroned | , king of Cappadocia. The Seleucid empire was temporarily united again. De ... |
Maximilian | ... urgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son | . With the inheritance of Burgundy, the House of Habsburg began to rise to ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... swear support for the Empress Matilda, just a few days after Henry's death | arrived from France to lay claim to the throne. The importance of the city ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from | to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric. This interpr ... |
Roman Emperor | Aurelian (; 9 September 214 or 215 – September or October 275), was | from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devast ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Lady Elizabeth (the future | ) |
Magnus the Good | ... ising the Baltic. As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king | |
Ceawlin | ... obyrig or Old Sarum, near Salisbury, in 552, and that in 556 he and his son | won a battle against the Britons at Beranburh, now identified as Barbury C ... |
Majorian | ... prestige gained through their victories, Ricimer and the comes domesticorum | rebelled against Avitus; the Emperor was obliged to leave Rome in early au ... |
The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after which | became Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ... |
Pygmalion | ... ’s translation, with a longer discussion of the Nora stone, is found in the | article.) If Cross’s interpretation is correct, this presents inscriptiona ... |
Pharaoh | During the Amarna Period, | Akhenaten introduced monotheistic worship of Aton, the deified solar disc, ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... to take command of the ruins on May 18. The Abbey was rebuilt after the war | ;reconsecrated it in 1964 |
Joseph II | ... l ("national Singspiel"), a pet project (1778–1783) of the Austrian emperor | . The Emperor had set up the company to perform works in the German langua ... |
Eleanor of Portugal | Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with | |
The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... oing stress he endured began to show their effects on Bishop Belo's health. | accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26 ... |
Pelias | ... Proetus's kingdom. Bias and Iphianassa had a daughter Anaxibia who married | , to whom she bore Acastus and several daughters. According to Pausanias, ... |
Xiao Zhuang | ... , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, and | , who is considered by some historians to be a Liang Dynasty emperor, had ... |
Bessus | ... ee to Bactria but was assassinated by a subordinate lord, the Bactrian-born | , who proclaimed himself the new ruler of Persia as Artaxerxes. Bessus was ... |
Francis I | ... 1286 sold it to the crown. It was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by | . After the time of Louis XIV the title of duke of Chartres was hereditary ... |
Muhammad | It has been recorded that | has said |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, which it had occupied during the conflict. | ("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the re ... |
Duchess of Kent | ... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the | , and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ... |
claim to the French throne | ... to quarter the French arms until 1801, when George III abandoned his formal | |
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | ... amed with Fascist names. A failed assassination attempt was carried towards | by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, ... |
Charlemagne | The town was founded in 789 by | in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... nisext Council. Constantine was the last pope to visit Constantinople until | did again in 1967 |
Athanaric | ... om Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king | and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the hei ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... cial statehood ceremony in 1959 and being asked for a private audience with | |
Gustavus Adolphus | ... hirty Years' War. Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King | , Conti ordered his troops to burn houses, destroy villages and generally ... |
The Duke of Gloucester | ... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: | (his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ... |
Tetricus | ... Aurelian won this campaign largely through diplomacy; the "Gallic Emperor" | was willing to abandon his throne and allow Gaul and Britain to return to ... |
Richard I of England | ... er own library. A deep affection existed between Marie and her half-brother | , and his celebrated poem J'a nuns hons pris, lamenting his captivity in A ... |
Amalric of Lusignan | ... accidental fall in 1197. Queen Isabella then married for a fourth time, to | , who had succeeded his brother Guy, positioned as King of Cyprus. After t ... |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
Mary | ... e, Catherine of Aragon, bore him only a single child that survived infancy, | . As England had recently gone through a lengthy dynastic conflict (see Wa ... |
Raúl Castro | ... dent of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and | leave power and a prescribed course of transition is followed. The bill al ... |
Isabella I of Castile | Ferdinand's 1469 marriage to | brought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ... |
Christopher of Denmark, Sweden and Norway | King | died in January 1448. His death resulted in the break-up of the union of t ... |
King Frederick VI | ... he recently established University of Berlin. It was originally named after | of Denmark and Norway and received its current name in 1939. After the dis ... |
Edward I of England | ... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King | (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ... |
Kaiser | ... nded in 1918 with the defeat of Germany and the abdication and exile of the | |
Saladin | ... Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from | (Salāh ad-Dīn). It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate ... |
Emperor Yuan of Liang | ... as briefly at Jiangling during the reign of Emperor He of Southern Qi), and | , as well as the later Western Liang emperors (Emperor Xuan, Emperor Ming, ... |
Alexander the Great | ... had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and | 's Hellenic Macedonian empire (c. 330 BCE), although Jewish religious prac ... |
George III | ... ter of Great Britain) continued to quarter the French arms until 1801, when | abandoned his formal claim to the French throne |
Constantine | ... nciple of "one god, one empire", that was later adopted to a full extent by | . On some coins, he appears with the title deus et dominus natus ("God and ... |
Cerdic | ... from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There he is stated to have been the son of | , and also (in the regnal list in the preface) to have been the son of Cer ... |
Charles Knutsson | Meanwhile, Sweden had on 20 June 1448 elected | as king. Norway was now faced with the choice between a union with Sweden ... |
Emperor He of Southern Qi | ... though the Southern Qi capital was briefly at Jiangling during the reign of | ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors ... |
Talaus | ... mpus for more information). Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, | , with her. When Pero died he remarried Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, a ... |
Henry VIII | ... he separation of the Church of England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under | , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537, brought England alongside this ... |
Mao Zedong | ... nt stage was Japan instead of Chiang. But this received cold shoulders from | and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's poli ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... the parents of three daughters: Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. When | passes away, or abdicates the throne, the Crown Prince will take the thron ... |
Alaric II | ... supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to | as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostro ... |
Charles I | ... l Assemblies, moreover, met only at times and places approved by the crown. | inherited a settlement in Scotland based on a balanced compromise between ... |
Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
Demetrios | ... esoteric beliefs. It came into the possession of Princess Theodora, wife of | , despot of Morea. Theodora sent the manuscript to Scholarius, now Gennadi ... |
Queen Isabel II | ... 843 to 1852, who founded Isabel Segunda, the "town of Vieques", named after | of Spain). Vieques was formally annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854 |
Charlemagne | When | destroyed the walls of Pamplona after a failed attempt to conquest the Mus ... |
Isabella | # | (1214–1241), the wife of Emperor Frederick II, by whom she had issue |
Enver Hoxha | ... by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, | founded the Communist Party of Albania. The town soon became the center of ... |
Elizabeth I | In 1952, a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with | saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and sc ... |
Erik Axelsson Tott | ... t tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and | and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa. Also Duke of Schleswig and H ... |
Sarpedon | # Antíphatês, son of | . Who accompanied Aeneas to Italy where he was killed by Turnus |
Emperor Frederick II | # Isabella (1214–1241), the wife of | , by whom she had issue |
Alexander the Great | ... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and | 's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ... |
Friedrich Wilhelm II | The Brandenburg Gate was commissioned by | to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the C ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
Henry II | ... own, he entered the household of Henri d'Angoulême, the illegitimate son of | , governor of Provence. He served this prince as secretary in Provence, an ... |
David | ... do boats were virtually invisible. The Davids were named after the story of | and Goliath. The CSS Midge and CSS St. Patrick were David-class torpedo bo ... |
Louis Philippe | The French Foreign Legion was created by | , the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ... |
Marie Antoinette | ... sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of | (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collection ... |
Augustus | ... n protectorate. The process was completed in 27 B.C. when the Roman Emperor | annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province o ... |
Kamakura shogunate | ... of the Kamakura shogunate Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the | Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hōjō Masako, and his older brother wa ... |
Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
Grand Duke Paul | ... ntative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian | (son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne). However, it w ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | | 's emergence as the national leader coincided with the realization that th ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... ulture expanded into the islands of the Western Mediterranean. The reign of | ("the Great") included the conquest of Sicily and the successful defense a ... |
The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
Alexander the Great | ... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of | . The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ... |
Athalaric | ... ir. This terminology survived in the Byzantine East as late as the reign of | , who was called του Ουαλεμεριακου (tou Oualemeriakou) by John Malalas |
Prince George | ... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to | , in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge |
Mehmed II | ... the Ottoman Empire grew in size and strength, Ottoman rulers beginning with | began to claim caliphal authority. Their claim was strengthened when the O ... |
Henry II | ... bey and ordered her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside | and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, ... |
Perseus | She remained faithful to Dionysus, but was later killed by | at Argos. In other myths Ariadne hanged herself from a tree, like Erigone ... |
John III of Navarre | ... with France (reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d'Albret, sister of | ), in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: aft ... |
Emperor Joseph II | ... 1787, Clerfayt, as a Walloon by birth, came under great pressure to abandon | . But he resisted all overtures, and in the following year went to fight i ... |
King Emeric | ... enice throughout the 12th century, but had rebelled in 1181 and allied with | of Hungary and . Subsequent Venetian attacks were repulsed, and by 1202 th ... |
Thomas Seymour | In 1952, a romanticised version of | 's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ... |
Kamakura shogunate | ... ber 17, 1192 – February 13, 1219, r. 1203–1219) was the third shogun of the | Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minam ... |
Augustus | ... to being "a son of god", "a son of a god" or "son of Heaven". Roman Emperor | referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ka as "Mykians" who were also previously involved in several conquests with | and after the conquest of Egypt with Cambyses, they went to Sindh in comma ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532, | imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ... |
Frederick William | In the time of | (1688), shortly after the Thirty Years' war and a century before the gate ... |
The Duke of York | ... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and | |
Philip IV | ... he Palatinate, Charles declared war on Spain, which under the Catholic King | had sent forces to help occupy the Palatinate |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
Melampus | # Antíphatês, son of | and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes. He married Zeuxippe, the daug ... |
King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
Friedrich Barbarossa | ... ecords dating to as early as 854. The city was declared an Imperial City by | in 1181 |
Ivan the Terrible | ... Poland. In 1577, Dünaburg castle was captured and destroyed by Russian tsar | . That same year, a new castle was built 20 km downriver. In 1582 Daugavpi ... |
Catherine of Bulgaria | ... on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress | . Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery |
Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
Oenopion | With Dionysus, she was the mother of | , the personification of wine, Staphylus (related to grapes), Thoas, Pepar ... |
Prince Francis | ... y's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother | . See also , Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In 1924, the famous ... |
Megapenthes | # Antíphatês, son of Melampus and Iphianeira, the daughter of | . He married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon. Their children were Oecl ... |
Ferdinand II | ... , had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the Holy Roman Emperor | . Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatinate, Charles ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... sianus, one of his collaborators in his embassy to the Visigoths ordered by | , as the new magister militum; then he probably went to Gaul (Hydatius say ... |
Agamemnon | ... lled by Orestes, who was their half-brother and the son of Clytemnestra and | (this was in revenge for Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon, which she did in ... |
King Louis IX | In the reign of | (St. Louis) the three petals of the flower were said to represent faith, w ... |
Dowager Empress Marie of Russia | ... . She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate of | and paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridg ... |
Frederick V | ... ally confined to Bohemia, was spiralling into a wider European war. In 1620 | was defeated at the Battle of White Mountain and by 1622, despite the aid ... |
Richard II | When | was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ... |
Agamemnon | In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as | . The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the scr ... |
Minamoto no Yoritomo | ... gunate Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate | , his mother was Hōjō Masako, and his older brother was the second Kamakur ... |
Emperor Gaozu | ... eror" (huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as | (r. 202–195 BCE). Chang'an was chosen as the new capital of the reunified ... |
Kaiser | ... became one of the most prominent critics of German expansionism and of the | 's war policies. He publicly attacked the Belgian annexation policy and un ... |
Tiberius | ... tory of Pliny, by Pliny the Elder (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor | had the cucumber on his table daily during summer and winter. The Romans r ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... cient sources, especially compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g. | , Pelopidas). One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biog ... |
Napoleon III | However, in 1865, | allowed them to apply for full French citizenship, a measure that few took ... |
Domitian | ... of the Third Century, earning him the title Restorer of the World. Although | was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus ... |
Judith of Bohemia | ... me to Sophia, perhaps to distinguish herself from Władysław I's first wife, | . She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia (by marriage Princess of Vla ... |
Napoleon III | ... rbances in Italy from 1820 until after unification. The Carbonari condemned | to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in ass ... |
Robert Curthose | ... mans, Monkchester was all but destroyed. Because of its strategic position, | , son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden there in the year 1080 an ... |
James II of Majorca | ... d Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his son | as the Kingdom of Majorca. This division began a period of struggle that e ... |
Kanishka I | ... i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd century Kushan King | used the title devaputra meaning "son of God" |
Elizabeth I | ... ised her role as Catherine Parr in Part 1 of a 6-part series on the life of | in 1971, called Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson in the title role |
Sparta | ... eaux riches. While a general in the Peloponnesian War, he lost Pylos to the | ns and was charged with treason. According to the Constitution of the Athe ... |
Elizabeth I | ... he reign of Mary 1553–1558, a loose consensus developed during the reign of | , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. Yet it ... |
Sparta | ... . The Peloponnesian War, the large scale Greek civil war between Athens and | and their allies, is a case in point |
German king | In 1440 he was elected | as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by ... |
Charles VII | ... pported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy. The king of France | recaptured the town in 1449, 18 years after the death of Joan of Arc and a ... |
William, Duke of Nassau | ... rrounded by several outstanding buildings. The ducal palace was begun under | . Its foundations were laid in 1837 and it was completed in November 1841 ... |
Atahualpa | ... tage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor | and Huáscar, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated ... |
the King | ... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when | , convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ... |
Richard | ... after the King's father, Henry II. He was quickly followed by another son, | , and three daughters, Joan, Isabel, and Eleanor. All five children surviv ... |
German King | ... was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as | as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 14 ... |
emperors | ... hly diverse, drawing on several millennia of culinary history. The dynastic | of ancient China were known to host banquets with over 100 dishes served a ... |
Constantius | ... singly repressed, often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors | and Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in t ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... ntial Russian advances in Lhasa, wanted to open trade relations with Tibet. | , on the advice of his closest adviser Ugyen Dorji, saw the opportunity to ... |
Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
Alexander the Great | ... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to | (c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ... |
James I | ... nts and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of | through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain |
Maximilian I | ... an Emperor as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son | after ten years of joint rule |
Tokugawa shogunate | ... later joined Satsuma's Eighth Rifle Troop; in the Boshin War that ended the | , fighting at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi and other locations; he was also ... |
Louis VI | ... rue lilies, it was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century | and Louis VII started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so conne ... |
James VII and II | ... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was | , who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
John of England | ... and, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and | |
Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria | He married Catherine (as nun, Xene) of Bulgaria, a daughter of | . They had at least two children |
Sigismund III Vasa | ... h century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts of | and Władysław IV. These included Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, ... |
Margaret | ... interest in the upbringing of her granddaughters, Princesses Elizabeth and | , and took them on various excursions in London, to art galleries and muse ... |
Hu Jintao | ... ina by announcing the strategic partnership initiative during PRC President | 's state visit to Canada in September 2005 |
Henry Bolingbroke | ... as in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. When | returned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He ... |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer, | , the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ... |
Minamoto no Yoriie | ... other was Hōjō Masako, and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun | |
Bayan I | ... Protector mentions a Daurentius (577-579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan | . The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he howe ... |
Henry II | ... a gave birth to a son and heir who was named Henry after the King's father, | . He was quickly followed by another son, Richard, and three daughters, Jo ... |
Richard I of England | ... am IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, | , Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of England, Joan of England and J ... |
Emperor of the French | ... eaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of his powers (but not his title as | ) and sent him into exile on Elba |
Cyrus the Great | ... soon fell a prey to the Achaemenian Dynasty during the reign of Achaemenid, | (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to Pliny's evide ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
Sparta | ... ncluding their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to | , ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in ... |
Sir Thomas Seymour | ... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love, | returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ... |
Huáscar | ... nt civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor Atahualpa and | , and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated, such as t ... |
Philip the Fair | ... in were ruled by the kings of Sicily of the house of Anjou. The French King | , who had inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... castle probably retained its form as established by 1100 until the reign of | (1189–1199). The castle was extended under William Longchamp, Richard's Lo ... |
Leopold Joseph | ... raine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Duke | continued to reign at the Château de Lunéville |
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | ... rs, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, | , Leonora of England, Joan of England and John of England |
Władysław I Herman | In 1089, Judith married with | , Duke of Poland. This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relatio ... |
Alexios Komnenos | ... owned by Patriarch Kosmas I of Constantinople. With the help of his general | , he defeated Bryennios and other rivals, but failed to clear the invading ... |
Al-Adil | ... there. He offered to begin negotiations with Saladin, who sent his brother, | to meet with Richard. Negotiations (which had included an attempt to marry ... |
Ludwig II of Bavaria | By 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne, sponsored by King | . He returned to Siegfried, and, remarkably, was able to pick up where he ... |
Augustus | ... the divine one) was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor | (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Dom ... |
Amulius | ... hea Silvia (also known as Ilia). Before their conception, Numitor's brother | deposed his brother, killed his sons and forced Rhea to become a Vestal Vi ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... aint Marcellinus, and on 13 July the feast day of Saint Anacletus. In 1960, | , while keeping the 26 April feast, which mentions the saint under the nam ... |
Jeanne of Navarre | | , wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ... |
Penthilus | ... troops, kills Aletes, and takes the throne. Orestes is said to have a son, | , with his half-sister Erigone, though stories differ as to whether this w ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... Republic, Oskar Fischer. In 1985, Tirana served as the ceremonial venue of | 's funeral. A few years later, Mother Teresa became the first religious fi ... |
Ugyen Wangchuck | ... the anti-British, pro-Tibetan ponlop of Paro—resulted in the ascendancy of | , the Ponlop of Tongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangc ... |
William I of the Netherlands | ... next became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830), and | founded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a state university |
King Arthur | Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary | . Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-c ... |
the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
Edward VII | ... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King | , who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ... |
Conrad II | In 1033, when | inherited the Kingdom of Arelat, Avignon passed to the Holy Roman Empire. ... |
Princess Margaret | ... t was a hit with passengers including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and | , who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 hosted by Sir Geoffr ... |
Charles I | ... f Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of | . Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel. From 1803, the Cardiff Arm ... |
Archduchess Maria Theresa | ... ion. The Lorraine duke Francis Stephen, betrothed to the Emperor's daughter | , was compensated with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where the last Medici r ... |
Queen Anne | ... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. | died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ... |
Julius Caesar | ... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, | as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ... |
Henry the Young King | ... he was also an older maternal half-sister to William IX, Count of Poitiers, | , Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of B ... |
Louis IX | In 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of the king of France, | (the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusad ... |
Gizur | ... Angantyr desperately tried to marshal the defenses, it was the Geatish king | who answered his call. In fact, no explanation is needed, because there is ... |
Prince Charles | ... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and | , called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ... |
Emperor Huan of Han | ... (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of | (r. 146–168 CE) in 166 CE, yet Rafe de Crespigny asserts that this was mos ... |
Prince Louis | ... rons. John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to | , the eldest son of the French king. However, after John's death in Octobe ... |
Emperor Xuan | ... ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors ( | , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, an ... |
Alexander the Great | ... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to | . The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ... |
Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
Theodosius I | ... e last vestiges of Paganism were crushed with great severity by the emperor | Rome was seized by Alaric in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of P ... |
John of Lancaster | ... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, | bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ... |
Thirty Tyrants | ... democratic movements in Athens opposed to the oligarchic forces behind the | |
Sophie of Württemberg | William III had a rather unhappy marriage with | , and his heirs died young. This raised the possibility of the extinction ... |
Diocletian | Under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor | in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ... |
Agrippa I | ... n procurator side by side with the rule of the Herodian kings (specifically | 41–44 and 50–100) |
Philip's | ... saintliness. Louis VII ordered the use of fleur-de-lis clothing in his son | coronation in 1179, while the first visual evidence of clearly heraldic us ... |
Domitian | ... sar as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by | and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament |
Sparta | ... Dioscuri (Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux) had taken Helen back to | ; they had taken captive Aethra and Physadeia, the sister of Pirithous, wh ... |
Prince John | ... rtook its expansion while preparing for war with Richard's younger brother, | , who in Richard's absence arrived in England to try to seize power. As Lo ... |
Tokugawa shogunate | ... kahashi was born in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), while Japan was still under the | . He was the illegitimate son of a court painter in residence at Edo Castl ... |
Selim I | ... tody and was transported to Istanbul, where he surrendered the Caliphate to | |
Cosimo de' Medici | ... d attempt to reconcile the East-West schism. Here Pletho met and influenced | to found a new Platonic Academy, which, under Marsilio Ficino, would proce ... |
Philip II of France | ... paternal half-sister to Marguerite of France, Alys, Countess of the Vexin, | and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to William ... |
Constantine II | ... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and | , and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
Agesilaus II | ... s of Epaminondas's life can be found in Plutarch's "Lives" of Pelopidas and | , who were contemporaries. There is also a surviving (and possibly abridge ... |
Francis Stephen | ... y Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession. The Lorraine duke | , betrothed to the Emperor's daughter Archduchess Maria Theresa, was compe ... |
Frederick William IV | ... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to | , Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of | |
Boso | ... he Franks under Charles Martel for having sided with the Arabs against him. | having been proclaimed Burgundian King of Provence, or of Arelat (after it ... |
Elizabeth II | On August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queen | to appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ... |
Blanche | ... , who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager | openly snubbed her. This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hat ... |
William IX, Count of Poitiers | ... f France and Agnes of France. She was also an older maternal half-sister to | , Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, ... |
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... ous of which is Ptolemaic Egypt. Other states founded by Greeks include the | and the Greco-Indian Kingdom in India. Although the political unity of Ale ... |
Catherine de' Medici | ... rst, a simple velvet-covered hoop and plate of iron, was supposedly worn by | . The other—said to have been worn by Anna of Austria—is a hinged pair of ... |
Louis VII | ... t was associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the 12th century Louis VI and | started to use the emblem, on sceptres for example, so connecting their ru ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... Daqin (Rome) in 97 CE with Gan Ying as emissary. A Roman embassy of Emperor | (r. 161–180 CE) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of ... |
Atahualpa | ... after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It was captured by the generals of | in April 1532 in the Battle of Quipaipan. Nineteen months later, Spanish e ... |
Prince Albert | ... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by | |
Numitor | ... ather lived, and refused to live in the city as his subjects. They restored | as king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own ... |
Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
James I | ... ied in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son | , had been taken captive by the English. Having paid a large ransom, James ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... Isaac II Angelos was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as | , the new emperor had his brother blinded (a traditional punishment for tr ... |
Achilles | ... roy, and attacked their camp in the Iliad. Though when the Myrmidons led by | turn the tide of battle and Hector is killed, foreshadowing Troy's imminen ... |
Charles I of England | Sir Owen's descendants include | and Oliver Cromwell; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the curre ... |
Joseph | ... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince | |
Charles V | ... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperor | obtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ... |
Selim I | ... sans, and scholars were transported to Istanbul from Tabriz and Cairo under | (d. 1520). The state mandated Muslim immigration to Rhodes and Cyprus foll ... |
King Henry VIII | ... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that | made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... attle of Largs in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King | . The Norwegian forces were defeated by the victorious Scots |
Óengus mac Fergusa | ... ship, which had been stable for more than a hundred years since the time of | (The accession of Cináed mac Ailpín as king of both Picts and Scots can be ... |
Constantine VII | ... l record of Romanians in the Istria region, however, dates back to 940 when | recorded the Romance-language speakers in this area in De Administrando Im ... |
Huayna Capac | ... l to the sphere of Huáscar in the division of the empire after the death of | in 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the ... |
Amulius | ... e twins grew up as shepherds. They came into conflict with the shepherds of | , leading to battles in which Remus was captured and taken to Amulius, und ... |
Henry VI of England | After defeat at the Battle of Towton, | crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ... |
Alexander the Great | ... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of | , and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ... |
Saruman | ... ives the translation: "Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! the dungfilth; the great | -fool, skai!". However, in a note published in the journal Vinyar Tengwar, ... |
Louis the Pious | ... em was composed by a renowned vernacular poet at the command of the emperor | ; the text then adds that this poet had known nothing of vernacular compos ... |
Henry II | ... ained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by | , the Reformed Church of France, largely Calvinist in direction, made stea ... |
Isaac II Angelos | It was also in 1195 that | was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Ange ... |
Michael II Komnenos Doukas | ... II defeated the alliance of William II Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea, and | of Epirus at the Battle of Pelagonia. In 1263, the emperor sent men (which ... |
Francis I | ... f Dreux and of Rethel, governor of Champagne (d. 1524), who was employed by | in many diplomatic negotiations, more particularly in his intrigues to get ... |
King Charles I | ... med by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of | , in 1634. The county was largely composed of farms and undeveloped land u ... |
Qin Shi Huang | The first unified Chinese state was established by | of the Qin state in 221 BC. Qin Shi Huang proclaimed himself the "First Em ... |
Hadrian | ... been theorized that Quietus was executed on the orders of the new emperor, | , for fear of Quietus' popular standing with the army and his close connec ... |
Baldwin III | ... riarch in Antioch. When Manuel came to Antioch later that year to meet with | , King of Jerusalem, Raynald was forced to lead Manuel's horse into the ci ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... oabite King Eglon, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. | (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesa ... |
Francis I | Though he was not personally interested in religious reform, | (1515–47) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, arising from his ... |
Brude | ... ven lived on St Serf's Inch, which had been given them by a Pictish prince, | , about 700. In 1093 they surrendered their island to the bishop of St And ... |
Alexander III of Scotland | ... Clan Ross by tradition fought at the Battle of Largs in 1263 in support of | against King Haakon IV of Norway. The Norwegian forces were defeated by th ... |
Augustus | ... ell into neglect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by | (Sueton. Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
Henry IV | ... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of | , king of France |
Pope Paul VI | ... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established by | on 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ... |
Peter II of Aragon | ... erritory (the "Reconquista"); to the east, in 1213, the defeat and death of | ("Peter the Catholic") in the Battle of Muret put an end to the project of ... |
Ferdinand | ... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with | , king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ... |
Queen Mary II | ... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and | of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ... |
Petronius Maximus | In the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperor | and was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; M ... |
Empress | ... strong Commonwealth. The nobility's Targowica Confederation appealed to the | for help and in May 1792 the Russian army entered the territory of the Com ... |
Louis VII of France | ... ce, Countess of Champagne (1145 – March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of | and his first wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Grace Kelly | ... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wife | for her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ... |
Menen Asfaw | On 3 August he married | of Ambassel, niece of heir to the throne Lij Iyasu |
Agnes of Châtillon | ... 's choice of a husband of such low birth. With Constance he had a daughter, | , in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince Béla, who was living at ... |
Pachacuti | According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca | , the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state in ... |
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland | The Percy family were powerful lords in northern England. | (1341–1408), rebelled against King Richard II and helped dethrone him. The ... |
Shah Alam II | ... athas under Mahadji Shinde recaptured Delhi and restored the Mughal Emperor | to the throne in 1772 |
Peada | ... when Saxwulf founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by | of Mercia, who was briefly ruler in the Middle Angles. The abbey church wa ... |
Attila | ... led Avitacum, near Clermont. Here he lived until 451, when the Huns, led by | , invaded the Western Roman Empire; Avitus used his own influence over The ... |
Midwest Division | ... Mavericks made the playoffs six of seven times from 1983 to 90, winning the | in 1986–87 and reaching the Western Conference Finals in 1988. However, th ... |
Puyi | ... Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with | , the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor. Manc ... |
Muryeong of Baekje | ... rean King. Kim has theorized that Emperor Keitai may have been a brother of | , and they may be sons of Konchi of Baekje (곤지, 昆支). If so, then this lege ... |
Louis XIV | ... defensive lines in the west. Villars moved after him, under new orders from | to prevent the fall of Mons at all costs – effectively an order for the ag ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... t the piece of fiction was based on a real-life liaison between Giscard and | . He later stressed that the story was entirely made up and no such affair ... |
William the Silent | ... ited all his lands. This "William I of Orange" - in English better known as | - became the founder of the House of Orange-Nassau |
known posthumously | ... e Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, | as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9– ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
Francis I | ... 550 before he was born in 1553. By his wife Margaret d'Angoulême, sister of | , he had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthon ... |
Theodoric II | ... m, probably praesentalis; Maximus sent Avitus in an embassy to the court of | , who had succeeded to his father, at Toulouse: this embassy probably conf ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... n the county courts of Franconia. They received their jurisdiction from the | , from whom they also received the capacity to pronounce capital punishmen ... |
Béla | ... ughter, Agnes of Châtillon, in 1154 (who later married the Hungarian Prince | , who was living at the court of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Co ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... Ratti's expulsion climaxed in Warsaw. Two years later, Achille Ratti became | , shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio ... |
Afonso | ... Cristina started off badly. With maturity, patience, and their first child, | , their relationship improved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more ch ... |
Prince William of Orange | ... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited | , husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ... |
Queen Anne | ... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from | . Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ... |
King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
Gia Long | ... h century a rebellion overthrew the Nguyễn, but one of its members, Emperor | , by the aid of a French force, in 1801 acquired sway over the whole of pr ... |
Huáscar | The city fell to the sphere of | in the division of the empire after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527. It ... |
Robert III | ... II of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, | , were marked by a general decline in royal power. When Robert III died in ... |
James II | The early reign of | was relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ... |
Clovis I | ... e too strong, and motivated his subsequent alliance with the Frankish king, | , to counter and ultimately overthrow the Ostrogoths |
William IV | ... maintenance of peace. He died in March 1508, and was succeeded by his son, | , whose mother, Kunigunde, was a daughter of the emperor Frederick III |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, | |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuse | of a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ... |
Achilles | In Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache relates that | killed Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe, but in Book 17, Podes ... |
Lê Lợi | In 1428, a Vietnamese general named | founded an independent dynasty in Vietnam which lasted till the end of the ... |
Henry II | ... se which could be removed in the event of an attack. It was probably during | 's reign (1154–1189) that a forebuilding was added to the south side of th ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played | in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ... |
James I of Aragon | ... to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. His successor | did not fully consolidate his power until 1227; once he consolidated his i ... |
Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden | In 1804 the parish of Volgsjö was renamed Vilhelmina in honour of Queen | |
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland | ... d III through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) | . Although this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker th ... |
Sigurd the Mighty | ... the Sudreys as a vassal of King Harald. His grandson Thorstein the Red and | , Jarl of Orkney invaded Scotland were able to exact tribute from nearly h ... |
Mary | ... en invited Prince William of Orange, husband of James's Protestant daughter | , to invade England and remove James from power, though the plan became pu ... |
Isabel | ... r relationship improved. Later Teresa Cristina gave birth to more children: | , in 1846; Leopoldina, in 1847; and lastly, Pedro, in 1848. However, both ... |
Oenopion | ... otia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and was blinded by her father, | , the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, ... |
Alexander the Great | ... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and | conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies |
Justinian I | ... a man with legal training. In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor | 's reign, he became the adsessor (legal adviser) for , Justinian's chief m ... |
David II | ... nly one year later, Robert died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son, | . On the pretext of restoring John Balliol's rightful heir, Edward Balliol ... |
William V | The succeeding duke, Albert's son, | (called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ... |
George III | ... rd (1987) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of | , and finally Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) in 1917, set in the trenches of ... |
Henry the Lion | ... of importance only after the division of the duchy of Saxony on the fall of | , when the archbishop of Cologne, duke of Westphalia from 1180 onwards, pl ... |
Hadrian | ... ife Pompeia Plotina who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died. | 's first act as emperor was to abandon the distant and indefensible Mesopo ... |
Henry II | ... e Wars of Religion. The civil wars were helped along by the sudden death of | in 1559, which began a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. ... |
Sapa Inca | ... h during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the | . Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ultimately unsuccessful. Ma ... |
Wang Mang | ... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew | (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ... |
Maria of Montferrat | ... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter | (born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem |
Richard II | ... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King | and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ... |
Qin Shi Huang | ... o well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King | (227 BC). In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, w ... |
Érimón | ... and was the wife of Míl, that is Milesius, and the mother of Éber Donn and | . Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was g ... |
Emperor Ninken | Empress: Kasuga no Yamada no Himemiko (春日山田皇女), daughter of | Satehime (紗手媛), daughter of Kose no Ohito no Ōomi (許勢男人大臣 |
Robert II | David II died childless in 1371 and was succeeded by his nephew | of the House of Stuart. The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, Ro ... |
Alexander I | ... al reform was inaugurated by Queen Margaret and carried through by her sons | and David I. Gradually the whole position passed into the hands of Thurgot ... |
Louis IV | ... policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with Holy Roman Emperor | , and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who were then ... |
Zeno | ... he state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. | granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his ov ... |
Xerxes | ... 0–428). It was said that Democritus' father was so wealthy that he received | on his march through Abdera. Democritus spent the inheritance which his fa ... |
George V | ... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" by | on 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ... |
King Harald Fairhair | In 875, | led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. In his attempt to unite Norway, he fo ... |
Herod the Great | ... y crushed by the Romans under Mark Antony and Octavian. The installation of | (an Idumean) as king in 37 BCE made Israel a Roman client state and marked ... |
Henry IV | ... ent, turned. He was presented by his countryman, the Cardinal Du Perron, to | ; and, though that economical prince did not at first show any great eager ... |
Adolf of Germany | See also | |
Macareus | ... of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, | or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thr ... |
Canute IV of Denmark | ... King Canute, who was murdered in the church of St. Alban's Priory in 1086. | , the son of King Sven Estridsen, was born about 1040 and ruled Denmark fr ... |
King of Burma | ... of the white elephant, and Lord of the twenty-four umbrellas." In 1855 the | directed a letter to the Marquis of Dalhousie in which he styles himself " ... |
Pharaoh | ... e of the town at least as far back as the Naqada II period. Under the first | s, Mendes quickly became a strong seat of provincial government and remain ... |
Albert I | ... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium | , the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ... |
Baybars | ... l history of Ashkelon was brought to an end in 1270, when the Mamluk sultan | ordered the citadel and harbour at the site to be destroyed. As a result o ... |
Richard I of England | ... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire, | sold the island to the Knights Templa |
Alfred the Great | ... pired by the latter city's history. It had been the capital of Wessex under | , and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 1 ... |
Albert V | ... many. William, whose death occurred in March 1550, was succeeded by his son | , who had married a daughter of Ferdinand of Habsburg, afterwards the empe ... |
Muhammad | ... the Islamic faith. However, the crescent was not a symbol used for Islam by | or any other early Muslim rulers, as the Islamic religion is, in fact, aga ... |
Anne Boleyn | In 1533, More refused to attend the coronation of | as the Queen of England. Technically, this was not an act of treason, as M ... |
Emperor Ōjin | ... etsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of | , Keitai, came and ascended the throne |
Hadrian | ... olis, he suddenly died from edema on 9 August. Some say that he had adopted | as his successor, but others that it was his wife Pompeia Plotina who hire ... |
Muhammad | Islam in China dates to a mission in 651, only 18 years after | 's death. Muslims initially came to China for trade, becoming prominent in ... |
Imru Haile Selassie | Ras Makonnen arranged for Tafari as well as his first cousin, Ras | to receive instruction in Harar from Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin, an Ethiopian ... |
Huo Guang | ... d court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of | (d. 68 BCE). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary fore ... |
George II of Great Britain | ... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King | 's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... female line, and that later led to dispute between two rival claimants—the | and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw 1411, where ... |
Theseus | ... retan beast that was encountered by Hercules, the Marathonian Bull slain by | (and that fathered the Minotaur). Roman mythology adopted the tale of the ... |
Achilles | ... Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( | ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia) and Philoctetes (who possessed Her ... |
Ippolito de' Medici | ... ence, republican enemies of the Medici took advantage of the chaos to exile | . Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor ... |
Queen Victoria | ... ace, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent. Within two years, | again performed an opening ceremony. The new site hosted concerts, exhibit ... |
Emperor Buretsu | If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then | would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan |
Henry IV | ... en 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when | , himself a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes, promising officia ... |
Margaret | ... tful heir. Edward chose Alexander's three-year-old Norwegian granddaughter, | . On her way to Scotland in 1290, however, Margaret died at sea, and Edwar ... |
Diana, Princess of Wales | ... hester, and a major hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital, named after | and Countess of Chester |
Alp Arslan | ... aud, took possession of Merv and Herat. Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew | (the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv. It was about this time that Merv ... |
Máel Coluim III | ... ladinit, as Kirkcaldy was then known. Crínán of Dunkeld, the grandfather of | , was a lay abbot, and tradition says that even the clerical members were ... |
Aurangzeb Alamgir | ... rd "Urdu" was used by Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzoo in 1741. The Mughal Emperor | (1658–1707) spoke Urdu (or Hindustani) fluently as did his descendents whi ... |
Henry VIII | ... uted to 19th century historian Agnes Strickland's book on the wives of King | . Research of documents (including Maud Parr's Will) conducted by Susan Ja ... |
King James I | ... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for | , it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ... |
Bayezid II | Beginning in the reign of | (d. 1512), transfers were used to manage the Ottoman state's difficulty wi ... |
Xerxes | ... d with the Chaldean magi. A certain "Ostanes", one of the magi accompanying | was also said to have taught him |
Christian II | ... e laid to rest after her death in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King | , with his wife Isabella of Austria, was also interred in the royal family ... |
Louis I, Duke of Bavaria | ... 1195, the Palatinate passed to the House of Welf through marriage. In 1225, | obtained the Palatinate, and thus the castle came under his control. By 13 ... |
Anne of Brittany | ... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry | , and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... arliamentary Act of Succession. More accepted Parliament's right to declare | the legitimate Queen of England, but he steadfastly refused to take the oa ... |
Pompeia Plotina | ... at he had adopted Hadrian as his successor, but others that it was his wife | who hired someone to impersonate him after he had died |
Philip II of Spain | ... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Louis XIII | ... , elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses - the odes to Marie de' Medici and to | , are the best-remembered of his works |
King Edward | ... de according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held against | until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-c ... |
Mary I of England | ... o make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or | . By 1580, men also wore them, and a person with authority or wealth was o ... |
Aurelian | ... r. Constantius was an officer in the Roman army in 272, part of the Emperor | 's imperial bodyguard. Constantius advanced through the ranks, earning the ... |
Manco Inca Yupanqui | The city was retaken from the Spanish during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by | , a leader of the Sapa Inca. Although the siege lasted ten months, it was ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as | in the British film A Question of Attribution |
Xerxes | ... ed at his tomb was plundered by the satrap Artayctes, under permission from | . The Greeks later captured and executed Artayctes, returning the treasure ... |
Magneto | ... he "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the mutant terrorist | , a Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hit ... |
Napoleon III | ... arly years of the war, British foreign secretary Lord John Russell, Emperor | of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston ... |
Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... y Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to | caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate B ... |
Henry IV | ... ng Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King | and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased ... |
Sahle Selassie | ... Sahle Selassie, who was an aunt of Emperor Menelik II and daughter of Negus | of Shewa. As such, Haile Selassie claimed direct descent from Makeda, the ... |
Nero | ... s going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre (so called from | 's Colossus) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upo ... |
Augustus | ... rs) was made a Roman citizen (and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal) by either | or Caligula |
Aegidius | From 457 to 486, under | and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soisso ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar | . However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor | personally present. On 2 December, Napoleon crushed the joint Austro-Russi ... |
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria | ... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commander | stated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ... |
Franz II | ... I. His mother was the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of | , the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of N ... |
Genghis Khan | In The Earth Is the Lord's (1941), she fictionalized | ; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), Cardinal Richelieu; in A Pillar of I ... |
Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark | ... f Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were | (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and ... |
Charles II | ... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting | to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ... |
Syagrius | From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son | , Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ... |
Friedrich V, Duke of Austria | ... til Sigismund came of age. The Landstände of Tyrol choose Sigismund’s uncle | . The contracts of the guardianship were put in Oswald's care. Oswald used ... |
Chandragupta Maurya | ... ssassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student | , the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations again ... |
Orestes | The story is an update of the Greek myth of | to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. Agamemnon i ... |
Emperor Sujin | Jien records that Suinin was the third son of | , and that he ruled from the palace of Tamaki-no-miya at Makimuku in what ... |
King Edward VII | ... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of | , began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ... |
Queen Elizabeth | ... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of | , who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ... |
Justinian I | ... yzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under | (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocat ... |
Emperor Ling | ... rban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Following the death of | (r. 168–189 CE), the palace eunuchs suffered wholesale massacre by militar ... |
Constantine | ... known in the Republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. The Emperor | reintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to ... |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Augustus | ... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of | with the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ... |
Karol Wojtyła | ... reasingly internationalist College of Cardinals, were figures like Cardinal | . Over the days following the conclave, cardinals effectively declared tha ... |
Erichthonius of Athens | ... culate fell on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to | ; then the surrogate mother gave the child to Athena to foster, guarded by ... |
Philip II | Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of | contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to th ... |
James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
Maximilian I | Whatever lustre the international position won by | might add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ... |
Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
Amulius | ... cendant Numitor, who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brother | inherits its treasury, including the gold brought by Aeneas from Troy. Amu ... |
Emperor of Abyssinia | ... y deposed the Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title, | , for the King of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized t ... |
Nero | ... rowly escaped execution. During the disturbances that followed the death of | , he took up arms under pretence of siding with Vespasian and induced the ... |
Mary | ... h in the same year left the Crown in the hands of his six-day-old daughter, | . Once again, a regency was established |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of | and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ... |
King | ... step-children; a trait which she would again show after her marriage to the | . Her teenage stepson, John, proved to be difficult. There is some indicat ... |
Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
Philip II of Spain | After the Magellan expedition, King | sent Ruy López de Villalobos and Miguel López de Legazpi in 1543 and 1565 ... |
Lordship of the Isles | ... styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was to develop latterly into the | |
Edward | ... and Scandinavia has been discussed recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, | and Ælfred by Æthelred and Harthacnut by Cnut, were also claimants to the ... |
Maximilian I | ... summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector | . He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and af ... |
Saladin | ... army because of their anger for the massacre at Acre. It was believed that | even told the Crusaders to shield themselves in the Citadel until he had r ... |
Napoleon's | ... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by | . It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ... |
elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
Alexander the Great | | , on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ... |
Clovis I | ... he capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king | in the Battle of Soissons |
Sibylla | That year he allied with | and Guy of Lusignan against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed t ... |
Marcian | ... both the civil institutions, the Roman senate and the Eastern Roman Emperor | , as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian an ... |
Hugh Capet | ... the count Borrell II made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to | , the first Capetian monarch. In those years of the formation of the Catal ... |
Diocletian | ... ' De Mortibus Persecutorum, a political Christian pamphlet on the reigns of | and the Tetrarchy, provides valuable but tendentious detail on Constantine ... |
Isildur | In the year , at the Gladden Fields, | and his three eldest sons (Ciryon, Aratan and Elendur) were ambushed by Or ... |
Olaf I | ... sure sign that Canute was worthy of veneration. His brother and successor, | , was given the nickname Hunger because he was unable to do anything about ... |
Edward, Prince of Wales | ... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States. | , the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... arpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and | . Marpessus, according to Heraclides of Pontus, was formerly within the bo ... |
John William Friso, Prince of Orange | ... ench left wing back into the forest behind them. The Dutch under command of | , on the Allied left wing, attacked the French right flank half an hour la ... |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of | and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg, thus str ... |
Vespasian | ... t followed the death of Nero, he took up arms under pretence of siding with | and induced the inhabitants of his native country to rebel. The Batavians, ... |
Justinian I | ... Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by | , a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a boo ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Liu Penzi | ... rebels who deposed, assassinated, and replaced him with the puppet monarch | . Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as Emperor Guangwu ... |
Majorian | ... peror Marcian, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals | and Ricimer) and the Vandals of Gaiseric |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
Seleucus I | ... empire, Chandragupta Maurya, confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by | in 305 BC and following a brief conflict, an agreement was reached as Sele ... |
Sparta | ... invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae by | ns and other Greeks, Persian forces sacked Athens. Following successive Gr ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... ty in England, restored it to the heiress of line, the mother of Alexander, | |
Charlemagne | In the 8th century, ecclesiastical uses of "Europa" for the imperium of | provide the source for the modern geographical term. The first use of the ... |
Alexander the Great | ... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describes | and his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spri ... |
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor | ... standard from the walls of Acre. He was later transferred to the custody of | , and it took a ransom of one hundred fifty thousand marks to obtain his r ... |
King Cole | ... ria Anglorum that Constantine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of | of Colchester. Geoffrey of Monmouth expanded this story in his highly fict ... |
Emperor Xian | ... ds and divide the empire. When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from | , the Han Dynasty ceased to exist |
Maximilian I | ... the family for nearly 200 years. In 1597 he abdicated in favour of his son | , and retired into a monastery, where he died in 1626 |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... dship of the hundred of Nassaburgh, which was coextensive with the Soke, to | , who gave it to Lord Burghley, and from that time until the 19th century ... |
Emperor Ingyō's | ... a grandson of Ohi no Kimi, a great-grandson of Ohohoto no Kimi (brother to | consort), a great-great-grandson of Wakanuke Futamata no Kimi, and a great ... |
Alexander | It had taken | only six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ... |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835 |
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia | ... 9 April, between the French and the Piedmontese, and within only two weeks | was forced to sign an armistice. On May 15 the French general then entered ... |
The Queen | ... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. | herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ... |
Eric IV | During the civil war between | and his brother, Abel, Odense and the cathedral were burned down in 1247. ... |
Clovis I | ... during the rule of the Merovingian kings (A.D. 447-751). After the death of | in 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into whi ... |
Valentinian III | ... 441, however it only progressed as far as Sicily. The Western Empire under | secured peace with the Vandals in 442. Under the treaty the Vandals gained ... |
Queen Louise of Sweden | ... s Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), | , and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven |
Alfred the Great | During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by | and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in ... |
David I | ... ne was inaugurated around 1072, but was not recorded in the town's records. | , King of Scotland (reign 1124–53) would later grant this church dedicated ... |
Emperor Ankan | When | died, he had no offspring; and succession passed to his youngest brother w ... |
Sparta | ... divination and prophecy. In the visits to various places in Greece – Delos, | , Phlius, Crete, etc. which are ascribed to him, he usually appears either ... |
Emperor Keitai | According to the Kojiki Ankan was the elder son of | , who is considered to have ruled the country during the early-6th century ... |
King William IV | ... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. | 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ... |
Lord of the Isles | ... was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the Isles. The earldom of Ross remained with the | until that lordship was forfeited to the crown in 1476 |
James V | ... r noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As his son and successor, | , was an infant, the government was again taken over by regents. James V l ... |
Henry VIII | ... d his queen. It was rebuilt by Edward I at a cost of over £300 and again by | in 1519; the current building dates from this period, although the chapel ... |
Harold I | ... was the first wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, and mother of King | of England (1035–40). She served as regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035 |
Maria Anna of Austria | ... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial | , Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ... |
Critias | ... tus, "I understand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, | and Alcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were alread ... |
Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
Joanna, Countess of Provence | ... d from that time till 1377 was the papal seat. In 1348 the city was sold by | , to Clement VI for 80,000 florins |
Valentinian III | ... reiterated this initiative, recalling the treaty subscribed by Gaiseric and | in 442 and entrusting the defence of the Empire to the Roman army and its ... |
Habte Giyorgis | ... ing to the movement that deposed Iyasu were conservatives such as Fitawrari | , Menelik II's longtime Minister of War. The movement to depose Iyasu pref ... |
Diocletian | ... AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor | issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini ... |
James III | ... ccident at the age of thirty, and a council of regents again assumed power. | was defeated in a battle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leadin ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | John married Archduchess | , daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ... |
Theodosius II | ... nt Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by Pulcheria, sister of | , for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choice was a sign of the bond ... |
Edward III | ... aim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from | to George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually contr ... |
Andronikos II Palaiologos | ... the city on 15 August and had himself crowned together with his infant son | . When Michael VIII entered the city, its population was people, but he su ... |
Emperor Yingzong | ... l documentation for this.) Some distorted accounts claim that in the age of | , Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) of China, a poem named "詠冰酪" (Ode to the ic ... |
Alaric II | A time of confusion followed the death of | , the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the Battle of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic k ... |
Emperor Yūryaku | Ninken married to | 's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him. Their ... |
Theodosius II | ... , the Western Roman Empire was too preoccupied with war with Gaul to react. | , emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, dispatched an expedition to deal wi ... |
René of Châlon | ... continue the use of the name Châlon-Orange. History knows him therefore as | . After the death of René in 1544 his cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg ... |
Theodosius II | ... esiastic disputes of Constantine's later reign. Written during the reign of | (408–50), a century after Constantine's reign, these ecclesiastic historia ... |
The Shah of Iran | ... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. | drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ... |
Simon de Montfort | Following the Battle of Lewes a year earlier, where | had gained control of parliament, the Battle of Evesham in August 1265 was ... |
Aristobulus II | ... te c. 139 BCE was later exploited by the Romans themselves. Hyrcanus II and | , Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between Julius Caes ... |
George III | ... was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from Edward III to | , regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled.) The a ... |
King Henry VIII | ... on period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, with | intervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later ... |
Valerian | ... ult was that the Empire could not endure the blow of the capture of Emperor | in 260. The eastern provinces found their protectors in the rulers of the ... |
Emperor Seinei | ... s younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when | died without an heir. The two young princes were said to be grandsons of E ... |
Alexander III | ... Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to | , through the Treaty of Perth |
Padishah Emperor | ... tories against Beast Rabban threaten to disrupt the trade of the spice. The | Shaddam Corrino IV decides to intervene himself and arrives on Arrakis alo ... |
Sapa Inca | According to Inca legend, the city was built by | Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... not carry out the policies of his predecessor. He chose to make peace with | Louis IV, and as far as possible came to terms with the Franciscans, who w ... |
Aisin-Gioro Puyi | | | 爱新觉罗溥仪 Àixīnjuéluó Pǔy |
Manuel I Komnenos | ... nt. However, Myriocephalum's implications were initially limited, thanks to | ' holding on to power. The same could not be said of Romanos, whose enemie ... |
Pulcheria | ... nearby church of Saint Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by | , sister of Theodosius II, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choic ... |
Emperor Kammu | ... early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of | (737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty. The name Suinin-tennō ... |
James IV | ... tle against rebellious Scottish earls in 1488, leading to another boy-king: | |
Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
Henry VIII | ... the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King | . They were sold off or given away to the nobility and landed gentry. Gran ... |
Trajan | ... ng the First Dacian War and rebuilt only to be finally destroyed by fire by | 's army during the in 106 CE. The Romans then built a military camp (castr ... |
Vercingetorix | ... shows actual military value: during the "Great Gallic War" the Gauls under | planned to lure the Roman armies into Gaul and then trap and obliterate th ... |
Agamemnon | ... h of Orestes to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. | is now General Ezra Mannon, Clytemnestra is his second wife Christine, Ore ... |
King William III | In 1702, | died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ... |
Peter I | ... antilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success. Russia under | (Peter the Great) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success ... |
Magnus the Law-mender | ... attack that year. Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his son | ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland S ... |
Kangxi | Heilongjiang as an administrative entity was created in 1683, during the | era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the northwestern part of the Jilin pr ... |
Saladin | ... , citing Richard's alliance with King Guy. He too had been negotiating with | , as a defence against any attempt by Richard to wrest Tyre from him for G ... |
Morcant Bulc | ... have been called Bryneich. John Morris surmised that the line of a certain | referred to these monarchs, chiefly because he identified this man as the ... |
King Charles I | When civil war broke out, Peterborough was divided between supporters of | (known as Cavaliers) and supporters of the Long Parliament (known as Round ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ation") magazine entitled “Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership.” | ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao ("People’s Daily") ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel | His good work, however, was largely undone by his son | (1679–1726), whose far-reaching ambition set him warring against the Ottom ... |
Camillus | ... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general | 's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ... |
Harald I of Denmark | ... of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king | and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingd ... |
Prince George, Prince of Wales | ... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son, | , dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ... |
Mao Zedong | ... an accompanying “Editor’s Note” giving mild approval. He was seen as one of | 's full supporters as he was starting a struggle with rival leader Liu Sha ... |
Baldwin IV | Raynald served as | 's envoy to Manuel and, because his wife Constance had died in 1163, was r ... |
David I | ... of the church evolved into an Abbey in 1128, under the reign of their son, | . Dunfermline Abbey would play a major role in the general romanisation of ... |
Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | ... ife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandparents were | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Vi ... |
Emperor Buretsu | Ninken was succeeded by his son, who would accede as | |
Peter IV of Aragon | ... gon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by | ("Peter the Ceremonious"). Ramon Berenguer IV used "Aragon" as his primary ... |
James II | ... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles. | continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ... |
Augustus | ... orous writing with little or no real mocking intent. When Horace criticized | , he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th cen ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nk the French lines, Wellington caught up with and smashed the army of King | in the Battle of Vitoria, for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between | and Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ... |
Paul VI | ... his two immediate predecessors: John XXIII, who had named him a bishop, and | , who had named him Patriarch of Venice and a cardinal. He was also the fi ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President | , to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major nati ... |
Nebuchadnezzar | ... en this vast seaport, the last of the Philistine cities to hold out against | finally fell in 604 BC, burnt and destroyed and its people taken into exil ... |
Helgi Hundingsbane | In stanza 38 of the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, the hero | dies and goes to Valhalla. In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described |
Ferdinand Maria | ... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son, | (1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ... |
Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
Numitor | ... s destruction by the Achaeans. Their maternal grandfather is his descendant | , who inherits the kingship of Alba Longa. Numitor’s brother Amulius inher ... |
Philip V | ... coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported by | with some success. Russia under Peter I (Peter the Great) attempted to pur ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ormation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope. In 2000, | declared More the "heavenly patron of statesmen and politicians". In 1980, ... |
Emperor Gengshi of Han | ... nsurgent mob forced their way into the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang Mang. | (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of | . The Romanized natives received freedom (the burrows, cairns, and remains ... |
Flavius Constantius | ... his rank: he studied law. Before 421 he was sent to the powerful patricius | (shortly Emperor in 421), to ask for a tax reduction for his own country. ... |
Amalaric | ... of Vouillé. The Ostrogothic king stepped in as the guardian of his grandson | , and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul dominio ... |
Genghis Khan | Under their commander, | , the Mongols conquered Khwarezm and burned the city of Merv to the ground ... |
Charles III of Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ... |
Pachacuti | ... d to the quarter of the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of | , when an Inca died, his title went to one son and his property was given ... |
Philibert of Châlon | ... ené inherited in 1530 the Principality of Orange from his mother's brother, | . As the first Nassau to be the Prince of Orange, René could have used "Or ... |
James II of England | ... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king | . In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ... |
Maxentius | The foremost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors | and Licinius during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Fr ... |
Leo I the Thracian | ... ned by J.B. Bury. In 472 Olybrius was sent to Italy by the Eastern Emperor, | , ostensibly to mediate between Ricimer and the Western Emperor, Anthemius ... |
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah | ... eet, just south of Bab Al-Futuh (the northern gate). It is named after Imam | (985-1021), the sixth Fatimid caliph,16 th Fatimid/Ismaili Imam and the fi ... |
Queen of Sheba | ... and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the | . Haile Selassie is a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African histor ... |
King George III | Although her mother was a grandchild of | , May was only a minor member of the British Royal Family. Her father, the ... |
Louis XV | ... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King | , under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ... |
Mircea I of Wallachia | ... idely used in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Prince | used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince Stephen III of Moldavia sc ... |
Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
Queen Mary | ... ard and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter | lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then P ... |
William III | ... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, | and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ... |
Teucer | ... om the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by | |
Inca Roca | ... tourists. On the street Hatun Rumiyoq ("Of the Old Rock") was the palace of | , which was converted to the Archbishop's residence |
Numitor | When Romulus' grandfather | dies, the people of Alba Longa offer him the crown as rightful heir. Romul ... |
Raúl Castro | ... nt of hundreds of enterprises in key economic sectors. The military is also | 's base. In numerous speeches, Raúl Castro has emphasized the military's r ... |
King Louis | ... , wanted to order Luxembourg to immediately besiege Namur or Charleroi, but | , concerned about the dauphin’s forces on the Rhine, ordered Luxembourg to ... |
Malcolm Canmore | ... ll, which it is assumed to be referring to the rocky outcrop as the site of | 's tower in Pittencrieff Glen (now Pittencrieff Park). The rest of the nam ... |
Licinius | ... first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, Constantine and co-Emperor | issued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of ... |
Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
Theodoric the Great | The greatest of all Ostrogothic rulers, the future | (whose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... hting developed between moderates in the CSP and the radicals, led by Capt. | , who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. The internal political ... |
Princess Elizabeth | ... e wrote and arranged three masques, "The Lords' Masque" for the marriage of | , an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and ... |
Charles II | ... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's son | was declared king |
Halfdan | ... ollowing year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers Ivar the Boneless, | and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived in East A ... |
Edward | Henry VIII's children | and Elizabeth spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter Qu ... |
King Charles II | ... y constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull. Boniface VIII, and | of Naples should be considered one of the first great protectors and benef ... |
Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ka is mentioned by Greek historian Herodotus as one of the early satraps of | , who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empi ... |
Alexander the Great | ... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus, | 's horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... mission for Latin America is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on 19 April 1958, it is charged with providing assistance to and examining ... |
Roman Emperor | ... ry 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, was | from 306 to 337. Well known for being the first Roman emperor to convert t ... |
Maximilian | When he was twelve, his kinsman the emperor | placed him among his pages. He remained for seventeen years in the service ... |
the Prince of Wales | ... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, | (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ... |
Gundobad | ... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by | , Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ... |
Totila | The Ostrogoths of king | destroyed most of the town in 545. Assisi then came under the rule of the ... |
Achilles | ... re names of the tribe (also called "Myrmidones") settled in Pyhthia, led by | |
Ottokar I | ... ould return to the title of duke. The title of king became hereditary under | (1198). His grandson Ottokar II (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-li ... |
Charles II | ... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of | , a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ... |
David I | ... dedicated to the Holy Trinity which evolved into an Abbey under their son, | in 1128. The graveyard of this abbey would become the burial place for man ... |
Numa Pompilius | ... Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. They were added by | about 713 BC. February remained the last month of the calendar year until ... |
Queen Anne | ... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement of | at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ... |
Francis I | ... e Palace of Fontainebleau. This was accomplished by the great builder-king, | (1494–1547), who, in the largest of his many construction projects, recons ... |
Cestrinus | ... elenus acquiring the rule of Buthrotum, as king. Andromache bore him a son, | , who is identified with Genger or Zenter, a legendary Trojan king and fat ... |
James II | ... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, | , was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ... |
Queen Victoria | ... les Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and ... |
Stephen III of Moldavia | ... rince Mircea I of Wallachia used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince | scorched the earth in his country as the Ottoman army advanced in 1475 and ... |
Robert the Bruce | ... supported Robert the Bruce of Scotland. The Clan Ross fought alongside King | when Earl Fearchar's grandson William led the clan against the English at ... |
Prince Henry | ... 613, issued a volume of "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of | ", set to music by John Cooper (also known as Coperario). The same year he ... |
Henry VIII | ... wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized by | with other church properties |
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | John married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of | , his first cousin, in 1708. From that marriage were born six children, th ... |
Sparta | ... Pentapolis after 410, was born of wealthy parents, who claimed descent from | n kings, at Balagrae (Bayda now) near between 370 and 375 |
Tullus Hostilius | ... f Alba Longa. The noble Alban families which settled at Rome in the time of | then formed the nucleus of the gentes minores; these included the Tulii, S ... |
Shun | ... t monuments, including the renowned graves of the ancient sage kings Yu and | . Places he visited include Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ji ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in | , Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ... |
Jaromír of Bohemia | ... The jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted when | was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry II of the ... |
Sakthan Thampuran | ... ter Rama Varma Kunhjipilla Thampuran or Rama Varma IX or popularly known as | ascended the throne of Kingdom of Cochin (1769 to 1805). He changed the ca ... |
Francis I | From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, from | to Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ... |
Hyrcanus II | ... y the Roman Senate c. 139 BCE was later exploited by the Romans themselves. | and Aristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war b ... |
Mary II | ... omoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and | . When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of ... |
Josiah | ... erusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king | and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians. The book is writt ... |
Charles Albert | Untaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son, | (1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ... |
Charles II | ... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as | . Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in 1189. He attempted to take command of the Christian forces at Tyre, but | held power there after his successful defence of the city from Muslim atta ... |
Temenus | #Medon (Μήδων), a son of Ceisus and grandson of | . He was a king of Argos but his powers were limited to the minimum in fav ... |
Saladin | ... used as a prison for captured "Franks" during the Crusades, as a stable by | , as a fortress by Napoleon, and as a local school. In 1980 the mosque was ... |
Charlemagne | ... d the Pyrenean portion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona. | 's son Louis took Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately formi ... |
Henry VII | ... vourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, | 's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surr ... |
Augustus III | ... farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, Augustus II and | , brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Great Northern War, ... |
John XXIII | ... able to have a great deal of influence in all university affairs. In 1413, | granted the university extensive special privileges, such as university ju ... |
Edward VI | ... olitical and historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of | , Mary I, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronat ... |
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden | Heidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. | , refounded the University, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. ... |
Elector of Brandenburg | Prince Waldeck had hoped to delay the campaign to enable the | to move on the Moselle and tie down Boufflers, but Luxembourg’s early mano ... |
King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
Queen Margherita | ... Puccini opera was a national event. Many Roman dignitaries attended, as did | , though she arrived late, after the first act. The Prime Minister of Ital ... |
Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
Placidia | ... Rome, along with the Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and | |
Charles VI | ... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperor | proved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ... |
Rudolph I of Habsburg | ... rritory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power. | , who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, effectively revoked the status of ... |
Licinius | ... remost general of his time, Constantine defeated the emperors Maxentius and | during civil wars. He also fought successfully against the Franks, Alamann ... |
Pirithous | #Medon, a Centaur at the wedding of | and Hippodamia |
Leo I the Thracian | ... supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor | chose the noble Procopius Anthemius. His association with Gaiseric did not ... |
Cornelis de Graeff | ... ble at peace, at the great distress of the regents. When Andries Bicker and | , the great regents of the city of Amsterdam refused some mayors he appoin ... |
King Edward II | In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by | and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ... |
King Henry II | ... en Jaromír of Bohemia was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor | of the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal onc ... |
King Arthur | Twelve of | 's battles were recorded by Nennius in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of T ... |
Duke of Savoy | ... ne. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the | , whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catal ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... ama Varma IX or popularly known as Sakthan Thampuran ascended the throne of | (1769 to 1805). He changed the capital of Cochin Royal Family to Thrissur ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... resent house. This palace was the childhood home and favourite residence of | . Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal M ... |
Dost Mohammad Khan | ... evenge would later be sought and obtained by Fateh Khan's youngest brother, | |
Mary I | ... d historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of Edward VI, | , and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronations |
Charles I | ... reat Britain" in 1604—they remained separate kingdoms. James I's successor, | , experienced frequent conflicts with the English Parliament related to th ... |
Edward I | ... ases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and | in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late ... |
Charlemagne | ... III (750 – 12 June 816) was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by | from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's posit ... |
Clovis I | After the Franks under | defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ... |
Saladin | Ayyubid Sultan | had conquered most of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the anc ... |
King James I | ... uilt in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to | and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a prime exampl ... |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... ween the two factions broke down, and in 455 with a letter from the Empress | , begging Genseric's son to rescue her, the Vandals took Rome, along with ... |
Odin | ... ain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god | . Chosen by Odin, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon ... |
Charles Theodore | ... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to | , the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ... |
Queen Victoria | ... ess of Salisbury was three times Prime Minister during the closing years of | 's reign. The city of Salisbury (now Harare) in the colony of Rhodesia (no ... |
Libius Severus | ... ed, because Ricimer, who had become the Magister militum of the West, chose | as new Emperor (461–465). However, Placidia was now free, and re-joined he ... |
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | ... Hatfield Chase on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed by | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria again was divided into Bernici ... |
Acastus | ... the war in his place. The gods had pity on his widow, Laodamia, daughter of | , and brought him up from Hades to see her. She was at first overjoyed, th ... |
Trajan | ... 9 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor | or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
Theodoric II | ... s had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king | , who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possib ... |
King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
William III | ... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between | , and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ... |
James I | ... facto capital of Scotland for much of the period until the assassination of | in 1437. Following her marriage to King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret encour ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. | . She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ... |
Minos | ... , Orion was likely the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of | , King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he w ... |
Napoleon III | ... an claiming to be Napoleon to travel to France. That person turns out to be | , the nephew of Hornblower's great nemesis and the future President (and l ... |
Arcadius | ... l praetorian prefect Aurelianus. Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor | a speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
Fidel Castro | ... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of | . He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ... |
Henry II of England | | died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son Richard I (Lionheart) a ... |
Henry VIII | ... s succeeded by the Scottish monarch James VI, who was the great-grandson of | 's older sister and hence Elizabeth's first cousin twice removed. James VI ... |
Isabella of Austria | ... th in 1521. The son of Hans and Christina, King Christian II, with his wife | , was also interred in the royal family chapel. In 1807 the former Francis ... |
Roman Emperor | ... from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the | Trajan or Hadrian, but this is improbable |
Charles of Lorraine | ... who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death of | . Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the ... |
Fidel Castro | ... informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General Raúl Castro ( | 's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved into the Minist ... |
Sparta | ... r to avoid going to Troy with Agamemnon and Menelaus to bring Helen back to | – pretended to have gone mad and began sowing the fields with salt. Palame ... |
Valentinian III | ... rucial part in the blunders of Rome. Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killed | in an effort to control the Empire. Diplomacy between the two factions bro ... |
Tiberius | ... er a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor | . The linking of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and th ... |
William the Conqueror | In the Harrying of the North, | 's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ... |
Solomon | ... beginning of 2 Chronicles (chapters 1–9) is a history of the reign of King | , son of David |
Raúl Castro | ... oved under the informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General | (Fidel Castro's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved in ... |
Augustus II | ... th most peasant farms. The reigns of two kings of the Saxon Wettin dynasty, | and Augustus III, brought the Commonwealth further disintegration. The Gre ... |
Frederick I of Prussia | ... n Prince John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz of the Frisian Nassaus and King | , who both claimed the title Prince of Orange. Both descended from Frederi ... |
Mary I | ... atholic heir, and consequent persecution of the Protestant Church (as under | ), or foreign intervention by the Habsburgs or French, meant that the righ ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by | , and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took c ... |
Agamemnon | ... reason. In Greek mythology, Odysseus – in order to avoid going to Troy with | and Menelaus to bring Helen back to Sparta – pretended to have gone mad an ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... out, however, politics again played a crucial part in the blunders of Rome. | , the usurper, killed Valentinian III in an effort to control the Empire. ... |
William the Conqueror | When, in 1069, Malcolm Canmore and | held a conference respecting the claims of Edgar Atheling to the English C ... |
Rudolph II | ... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor | who made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ... |
James I | ... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown. | on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ... |
William II of Sicily | ... consisted of 650 knights, 1,300 horses, and 1,300 squires to the Holy Land. | had died the previous year, and was replaced by Tancred, who placed Joan o ... |
Saul | ... (chapters 1–10) mostly contains genealogical lists, including the House of | and Saul's rejection by God, which sets the stage for the rise of David |
John II Casimir Vasa | Following the abdication of King | and the end of The Deluge, the Polish nobility elected Michael to the Poli ... |
Emperor Ninken | Empress: Tashiraka no Himemiko (手白香皇女), daughter of | Menokohime (目子媛), daughter of Owari no Muraji Kusaka (尾張連草香 |
Elector of Bavaria | ... (although the Dauphin held honorific command). De Lorge was opposed by the | , who had succeeded command of Allied forces in the region after the death ... |
Ferdinand | ... g Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke | of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent sta ... |
Valentinian III | In an effort to bring the Vandals into the fold of the Empire, | offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Genseric's son. Before this tre ... |
Christina of Saxony | ... ng Hans of Denmark (d. 1513) was buried in the cathedral in 1513. His wife, | , who lived the latter part of her life in a nunnery in Odense, commission ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... e one of the most powerful sovereigns in Europe, and the only one to defeat | . Many members of the House of Orange were devoted admirers of the King-St ... |
James I | Elizabeth's successor | did not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) c ... |
Earl of Bothwell | ... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the | , who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ... |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... hed success, and was rewarded by a series of academic appointments. In 1552 | , appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted by | on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a |
Theodemir | ... lied with the former vassal and rival, the Gepids and the Ostrogoths led by | broke the Hunnic power of Attila's sons in the Battle of Nedao in 454 |
Charles IV | ... he Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I of Bohemia in 1310. His son, | became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, c ... |
Louis VII | This hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel by | in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, Louis IX, also call ... |
Charles the Bald | ... the title of count). At the end of the 9th century, the Carolingian monarch | designated Wilfred the Hairy — a noble descendant of a family from Conflen ... |
Queen Margaret | ... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of | at Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
William the Conqueror | ... the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of | . The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade and it later bec ... |
Ottokar II | ... e. The title of king became hereditary under Ottokar I (1198). His grandson | (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-lived empire which contained moder ... |
James IV | ... thumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King | and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended i ... |
Elizabeth I | ... and 17th centuries, when many figures who had fallen into disgrace, such as | before she became queen, were held within its walls. This use has led to t ... |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | ... żanka) a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of | , by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga |
Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
Emperor Kōkō | Nyōgo: Princess Chūshi/Tadako (忠子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tokiyasu( | later |
King James' | ... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestalling | attempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ... |
King George III | The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by | following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America ... |
Louis IX | ... chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, | , also called Saint Louis, who held Fontainebleau in high esteem and refer ... |
Ecgberht | ... hers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless, who installed an Englishman, | , as a puppet king. By 870 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led ... |
Napoleon III | When Louis Napoleon ( | ) seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary consti ... |
Lord Darnley | ... endancy was established. Mary caused alarm by marrying her Catholic cousin, | , in 1565. After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an ... |
Queen Mary | ... . After her two months of imprisonment in the Tower of London by her sister | , Elizabeth returned to Hatfield. The Queen Elizabeth Oak on the grounds o ... |
Oenopion | ... to the island of Chios where he got drunk and attacked Merope, daughter of | , the ruler there. In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away ... |
Emperor Frederick II | ... d after the Third Crusade allowed for Christian pilgrims to visit the site. | regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he h ... |
Peter the Great | ... of Sciences, an honor previously granted to only two other heads of state: | and Napoleon Bonaparte. Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philos ... |
Mao Zedong | ... s. By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under | had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Jap ... |
Sigismund of Luxembourg | ... s passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection by Emperor | prior to the journey. Hus was invited to attend the council to defend hims ... |
Odin | ... event is described primarily in the Poetic Edda. In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, | poses the question to Vafþrúðnir as to who of mankind will survive the Fim ... |
Philip the Fair | ... as "his wilderness", had a country house and a hospital constructed there. | was born there in 1268 and died there in 1314. In all, thirty-four soverei ... |
Emperor of Ethiopia | ... st 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and | from 1930 to 1974. He was the heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... Home, Lord Kames. Another descendant was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of | |
James II | ... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and | , it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ... |
Emperor Montoku | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Seishi (源済子), daughter of | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Sadako (源貞子) (?–873 |
Hadrian | ... r 119. Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Trajan or | , but this is improbable |
current Prince of Wales | ... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the | ). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ... |
Thomas Seymour | ... ears old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry | , the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwh ... |
Berengaria of Navarre | ... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry | , breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ... |
Huneric | ... ybrius for the purple; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's son | and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III (Petronius' ... |
Íñigo Arista | ... of Roncevaux Pass through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force. | of Pamplona was stepbrother of Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, by mother |
Achilles | ... e Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, | ' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' chariot as well as his own due ... |
Robert I of Scotland | ... connotation is still ethnic. This is how it is used, for instance, by King | and Domhnall Ua Néill during the Scottish Wars of Independence, when Irela ... |
Mark of Cornwall | ... n the Palamedes and other works, the castle is eventually destroyed by King | after the loss of Arthur at the Battle of Camlann. However maddening to la ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh | ... ower. The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son | (who calls himself "The Black Adder") in his various attempts to increase ... |
Oileus | #Medon, half-brother of Ajax the Lesser and son of | , king of Locris, by Rhene or Alcimache. He resided in Phylace, to where h ... |
Emperor | ... ed Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of | Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Angl ... |
Avitus | ... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senator | was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ... |
Queen Caroline | ... John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole; King George II; and his wife, | . The money she inherited from the Marlborough trust left her as one of th ... |
Wenceslaus | ... his wife Drahomíra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, | and Boleslaus, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, ... |
Cercaphus | ... seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were Ochimus, | , Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Nonnus adds Au ... |
Kamehameha III | ... ventually finished translating the Bible. Missionaries also influenced King | to establish the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in 1839 and 1840 |
Agamemnon | ... winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, | 's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers, Helios' ch ... |
Theodoric II | ... the Gallic-Roman senator Avitus was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king | and ruled for two years, then was deposed by Majorian, who ruled for four ... |
Edward | ... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: | , Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John |
Thrasamund | According to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia: "While | (496–523), owing to his religious fanaticism, was hostile to Catholics, he ... |
Titus | Jews led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by | and Vespasian, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew name into its l ... |
Al-Mahdi | ... ed that the Oghuz Turks had come to Transoxiana in the period of the caliph | in the years between 775 and 785. In the period of the Abbasid caliph Al-M ... |
Augustus | ... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that | perceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ... |
Béla III of Hungary | ... f 2,000 men from the Hungarian prince Géza, the younger brother of the king | also went with Barbarossa to the Holy Land |
John III of Navarre | ... Castle of La Mota, Medina del Campo, from which he escaped and joined King | . He was killed in 1507 while fighting for the Navarrese king in the city ... |
Narai | ... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King | (1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ... |
Emperor Kammu | ... rincess Hanshi (班子女王) (833–900), daughter of Imperial Prince Nakano (son of | |
David | ... ng it the final book of the Jewish bible). Chronicles largely parallels the | ic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings. In the Roman ... |
William of Orange | ... nown as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter Mary and her husband | to depose the king. William obliged, arriving in England on 5 November 168 ... |
King George II | ... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole | ;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ... |
William the Lion, King of Scotland | ... as described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by | and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. E ... |
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine. In 1716 | issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chiant ... |
Edward I | ... y, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle and was built under | . Although there were several phases of expansion after William the Conque ... |
Napoleon | ... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor | was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | The monastery, which was founded by | in or about 1185, is in the care of Cadw. In common with Strata Florida Ab ... |
Augustus | ... re the descendants of the "melting pot" of the Roman legionnaires (moved by | to eastern Istria to colonize the borders of Italy) and the Aromanian shep ... |
Eardwulf of Northumbria | Leo helped restore King | and settled various matters of dispute between the Archbishops of York and ... |
Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
Emperor Maximilian | ... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of the | and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ... |
Louis XIV | ... rom great territorial nobles, some of whom were leaders of the Fronde. When | became king in 1643, he was only a child, and though Richelieu had died th ... |
Julius Nepos | ... stris), Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor | ), and, clarissima femina (who married the praetorian prefect of Gaul Tona ... |
Ochimus | ... were the seven sons of Helios and Rhode, brothers to Electryone. They were | , Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, Triopas, and Candalus (Non ... |
Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
Nero | ... gdom over which the two great empires had shared hegemony since the time of | some fifty years earlier. Some modern historians also attribute Trajan's d ... |
Augustus | Under the reign of | , when the capital had grown to almost one million inhabitants, 14 wards w ... |
Emperor Ankan | Among his sons, | , Emperor Senka and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
Majorian | ... the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two years, then was deposed by | , who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general Ricimer (46 ... |
Louis XIV of France | ... East. The court of King Narai (1656–88) had strong links with that of King | , whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris |
Emperor Montoku | Seiwa was the fourth son of | . His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Akirakeiko (明子), also called ... |
Prince George, Duke of York | Albert Victor's brother, | , now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ... |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
Richard II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, | and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but ha ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang (227 BC). In 1192, | , the de facto King of Jerusalem, was assassinated by hashshashin |
Emperor Kimmei | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, Emperor Senka and | ascended to the throne |
Maximilian I of Mexico | ... e had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor | but to no avail. His complete archives (published by Pauvert) show also th ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... f the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to | , the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The ... |
John II Casimir | ... because of large scale internal conflicts (e.g. Lubomirski's Rokosz against | and rebellious confederations), corrupted legislative processes and manipu ... |
Queen Mary | ... l of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of George V and | |
Penda of Mercia | ... n which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria again was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then ... |
Kingdom of Cochin | ... ains and left for Mecca to embrace Islam. This place was later ruled by the | (Perumpadapu Swaroopam). During the time of the Chera ruler, Kodungallur w ... |
Charles I | ... they had moved to a position in the inner ward. Political tensions between | and Parliament in the second quarter of the 17th century led to an attempt ... |
Judas Maccabeus | The Jordan was crossed by | and his brother Jonathan Maccabaeus during their war with the Nabataeans ( ... |
Huneric | ... member of the royal house was to succeed. Thus he was succeeded by his son | (477–484), who at first tolerated Catholics, owing to his fear of Constant ... |
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | ... river, which moved east and reached Höchstädt on 19 September. Villars and | moved their army of 17,000 to intercept this force, ordering another Frenc ... |
Antigonus | ... st themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands of the general | by 304 BC. In 301 BC Antigonus was killed by an alliance of the other succ ... |
Henry VIII | On 22 November 1539 the abbey was surrendered to | 's commissioners in the Dissolution of the monasteries. It was awarded to ... |
James II | ... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future | , brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ... |
Emperor Senka | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, | and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
the Prince of Wales | ... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of | . The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ... |
Theodoric I | ... ative of his, Theodorus, was hostage at the court of the King of Visigoths, | : in 425/426 Avitus went and met him, thus meeting the King, who let Avitu ... |
Queen Victoria | ... f the Prince of Wales. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to | 's fondness for her, as well as to her strong character and sense of duty. ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... r Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of | , his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, descr ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... t to the north, east, and west is the inner ward, built during the reign of | (1189–1199). Finally, there is the outer ward which encompasses the castle ... |
Alexander I of Macedon | ... nd thereby block Xerxes's advance. However, once there, they were warned by | that the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of ... |
James II | ... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read | 's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ... |
Gunthamund | ... onstantinople, but after 482 began to persecute Manichaeans and Catholics." | (484–496), his cousin and successor, sought internal peace with the Cathol ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... . In 1401-1402 Oswald participated in the failed Italian expedition of King | . In 1407 he and his brother finally agreed on how to split the inheritanc ... |
Dowager Empress | ... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the | in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ... |
Vespasian | and | , and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew nam |
Odoacer | ... n 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor Zeno, to recover Italy from | . By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric would set up his capital. It w ... |
Murad II | ... eneral flows back and forth across the Dardanelles continued, the reigns of | (d. 1451) and Mehmet II (d. 1481) focused heavily on the demographic reorg ... |
Nero | ... mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. The Roman Emperor | (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit topp ... |
Mary | ... roup of Protestants known as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter | and her husband William of Orange to depose the king. William obliged, arr ... |
Amphictyon | ... Hellenes , the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of | and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus. His name is also another name for ... |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan first named as such by King | in 1160. The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O'Beo ... |
Triopas | ... lectryone. They were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Macareus or Macar, Actis, Tenages, | , and Candalus (Nonnus adds Auges and Thrinax). They were expert astrologe ... |
Joachim Murat | ... the Kingdom of Naples and granted it to his brother and then (from 1808) to | , along with marrying his sisters Elisa and Paolina off to the princes of ... |
John | ... ord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against King | in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Ba ... |
Saul | ... ic periods. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of | and David's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
Alfred of Wessex | ... thern England, where Jorvic had become the centre of the Viking kingdom but | managed to keep them out of his country. Alfred and his successors continu ... |
David I of Scotland | ... eivers. The castle was first mentioned in 1136 when it was captured by King | . at this point it was described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 ... |
Edward II | The idea of trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs ( | , Richard II and Henry VI) had been overthrown and murdered by their succe ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
Conrad of Montferrat | ... reduced by fever. Young Frederick had to ask the assistance of his kinsman | to lead him safely to Acre, by way of Tyre, where his father's bones were ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to | . His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography |
King Richard III | ... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that | won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ... |
David | ... s. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of Saul and | 's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
Charles II, Duke of Zweibrücken | ... dren to the status of princes of the Empire. The protests of the next heir, | (Deux-Ponts), supported by the king of Prussia, led to the War of Bavarian ... |
George V | ... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation of | and Queen Mary |
Alexander II of Scotland | Ferquhard Ross helped King | (1214–1249) crush a rebellion in Moray and Ross-shire. When King Alexander ... |
William the Silent | ... n again in Western Europe. The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland (1296), | of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and Henry ... |
Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
Henry VIII | ... established during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of | |
Pope Pius XI | ... was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1936 under its current name by | and is placed under the protection of the reigning Pope). Its aim is to pr ... |
William III | ... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from | 's Act of Indemnity |
Richard II | ... mes under Edward I and was expanded to its current size during the reign of | (1377–1399) |
Polycrates | ... of his birth, Aristoxenus stated that Pythagoras left Samos in the reign of | , at the age of 40, which would give a date of birth around 570 BC |
Roman Emperor | ... ted the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the | Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of ... |
Augustus | ... d others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of Emperor | , present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a province ... |
Crown Princess of Sweden | ... of Cambridge), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the | helped pass letters from May to her aunt, who lived in enemy territory in ... |
Malcolm III | ... ance. The town was first recorded in the 11th century, with the marriage of | , King of Scotland and Saint Margaret at the church in Dunfermline. As his ... |
Alexander III (the Great) | ... al dynasts the freedom to rule. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered by | of Macedon during 334–333 BC |
Henry II of England | ... ristians across Europe. The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. | and Philip II of France ended their war with each other, and both imposed ... |
Princess Anne | Sarah became close to the young | in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ... |
Munju of Baekje | ... 곤지, 昆支). If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from | |
Roman Emperor | ... that a frozen mixture of milk and rice was used in China around 200 BC. The | Nero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit ... |
Prince Edmund | ... der character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling | of the first series. To make the show more cost-effective, it was also sho ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... relat (after its capital Arles), by the Synod of Mantaille, at the death of | (879), Avignon ceased to belong to the Frankish kings |
Jérôme Bonaparte | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811 |
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden | On 5 September, the main force of the Imperial Army under | had taken the free city of Augsburg, threatening Bavaria from the west. Lo ... |
Codrus | #Medon, the son of | , was the first archon of Athens. He was lame, which was why his brother N ... |
Theodemir | ... hose name means "leader of the people") of Ostrogothic Kingdom, was born to | in or about 454, soon after the Battle of Nedao. His childhood was spent a ... |
Xerxes | Herodotus mentions that the leader of the Lycian fleet under | in the Second Persian War of 480 BC was Kuberniskos Sika, previously inter ... |
Philip II of France | ... The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. Henry II of England and | ended their war with each other, and both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on the ... |
Henry I | ... rt de Beaumont, Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 | made de Beaumont Earl of Leicester and de Beaumont's manor at Napton becam ... |
Ranjit Singh | ... hem, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, | , as his governor in the Punjab. This "one-eyed" warrior would later becom ... |
Charles II | ... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King | ) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ... |
Charlemagne | ... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of | , whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830 |
Hadrian | ... nd death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor | , who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antonin ... |
Charles Theodore | ... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt. | , who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ... |
Emperor Yōzei | ... ototsune was influential in the process by Kōkō became emperor. At the time | was deposed, Prince Tokiaytsu was already Governor of Hitachi and Chief Mi ... |
Babur | ... ntres of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The autobiography of Mughal emperor | , Tuzk Babari was also written in Turkish |
Theodoric II | ... tus enter his own court. Here, around 439, Avitus met the son of Theodoric, | , who later became King. Avitus inspired the young Theodoric to study Lati ... |
Henry VI | ... trying a king was a novel one; previous monarchs (Edward II, Richard II and | ) had been overthrown and murdered by their successors, but had never been ... |
Emperor Ankan | ... hes of the Yamato, pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as | and Emperor Senka against those who were backers of the son who would beco ... |
Maximilian IV | ... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. | Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ... |
Emperor Wu of Han | ... logers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of | (Emperor "Han Wudi"). His main responsibilities were managing the imperial ... |
Charles Martel | ... into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under | for having sided with the Arabs against him. Boso having been proclaimed B ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
Hilderic | ... m the primary religion in North Africa. Generally most Vandal kings, except | , persecuted Trinitarian Christians to a greater or lesser extent, banning ... |
Al-Ma'mun | ... Mahdi in the years between 775 and 785. In the period of the Abbasid caliph | (813 – 833), the name Oghuz starts to appear in the Islamic historiography ... |
Joshua | ... Numbers ) and the "nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh" that, led by | , settled to the west (, passim) |
Irene of Athens | ... ditionally been seen as the defender of Rome, but the Eastern Roman Empress | was too weak to oppose Charlemagne. Charlemagne was to intervene in church ... |
Otto III | ... the Pope's temporal power, though it was denounced as a forgery by Emperor | and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri. ... |
Wu Sangui | ... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General | , extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ... |
Sparta | The polis of | was the greatest military land power of classical Greek antiquity. During ... |
Strophius | #Medon, the son of Pylades and Electra and brother of | |
John III of Navarre | ... are married Charlotte of Albret (1480 – 11 March 1514). She was a sister of | . They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ... |
Henry III | ... asons. The precursor of the Liberties was laid out in the 13th century when | ordered that a strip of land adjacent to the castle be kept clear. Despite ... |
Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland | ... balls. Churchill, who had previously been a lover of Charles II’s mistress, | , had little to offer financially, as his estates were deeply in debt. Sar ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... sia. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, | (Helen Hayes), of her authenticity |
Emperor Zeno | ... meaning "table" or "board", was a game mentioned in an epigram of Byzantine | (AD 476–481). It was similar to modern backgammon in that the object of th ... |
Menelik I | ... c traditions, which hold that all monarchs must trace their lineage back to | , who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the ... |
Euric | ... alled themselves in Tarraconensis (410) and when in 475 the Visigothic king | formed the kingdom of Tolosa (modern Toulouse, France), he incorporated th ... |
Cleisthenes | ... ted an anti-Dorian policy. Chief of these rulers was the founder's grandson | , the uncle of the Athenian legislator Cleisthenes. Besides reforming the ... |
Prince of Wales | ... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the | and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ... |
Emperor Senka | ... pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as Emperor Ankan and | against those who were backers of the son who would become known as Empero ... |
Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
Princess of Wales | ... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the | , and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ... |
Charles VIII of France | ... o had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until | drove Sforza out of Italy. After Cesare, Leonardo was unsuccessful in find ... |
Victoria of the United Kingdom | He convinced the government of Queen | to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities a ... |
Cheraman Perumal | ... of Kerala with their capital at Vanchi. Kodungallur was also the capital of | , the last Chera ruler in the 7th century A.D. The legend is that he abdic ... |
Przemysł II | ... ical reasons—became more common again in Western Europe. The reigns of King | of Poland (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the Fr ... |
Queen of Sheba | ... I, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the | |
Justinian I | ... m Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor | , he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars o ... |
James, Duke of York | ... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, | . A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ... |
Louis IX | ... during the 11th Century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers. In 1254, | issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing. ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... d in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of a | known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna. Valhalla has inspired variou ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... soldiers who had served under Aetius, probably instigated by the Patricius | , who succeeded to obtain the throne. Petronius, who was a high-ranking im ... |
Baibars | ... Byzantines. He also signed a treaty in 1263 with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan | , and the Mongol Khan of Kipchak |
Pylades | #Medon, the son of | and Electra and brother of Strophius |
Emperor Kimmei | ... r Senka against those who were backers of the son who would become known as | |
Marguerite de Navarre | ... River"; and he named Upper New York Bay the Bay of Santa Margarita - after | - the elder sister of the king |
Holy Roman Emperor | The elderly | Frederick I Barbarossa responded to the call immediately. He took up the C ... |
Edwin of Northumbria | ... of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northern England. He was a cousin of king | , being the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the fat ... |
Henry IV | ... cousin, Lord Rhys. At the age of seven he was sent to the English court of | as page to the King's Steward. He went on to fight for the English at Agin ... |
Sennacherib | ... syrian vassalage, (despite a disastrous rebellion against the Assyrian king | ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, ... |
King William I | ... f the powers gathered at the Congress of Vienna, William proclaimed himself | . He was also made grand duke of Luxembourg, and the title 'Prince of Oran ... |
Thutmose III | ... the bricks were stamped with the cartouche of Menkheperre, the pre-nomen of | . A cemetery of sacred rams was discovered in the northwest corner of Tell ... |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge | ... was also close to her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (née | ), and wrote to her every week. During the First World War, the Crown Prin ... |
Ottonian | After many changes in ownership between the | and Salian noble families, it was the Counts of Sayn, Diez and Wied who fi ... |
King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
David I | ... in the service of Walter fitz Alan, who had been appointed Steward by King | |
Empress Dowager Longyu | ... nephew Puyi, who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the | . In another coup de'tat, Yuan Shikai overthrew the last Qing emperor, and ... |
Sancho III of Navarre | ... ain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of | and Mayor of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of ... |
Æthelric of Deira | ... e was a cousin of king Edwin of Northumbria, being the son of Edwin's uncle | . Osric was also the father of Oswine |
Pope John Paul II | With the changes in the canonization process introduced by | in 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ... |
Semiramis | The figures of King Ninus and Queen | first appear in the history of Persia written by Ctesias of Cnidus (c. 400 ... |
Princess Märtha of Sweden | On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin | with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ... |
Elessar | On May 1, 3019 King | 's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ... |
Sancho VII | ... lians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under Peter II, Navarrese under | , and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Narbonne all flocked to the ef ... |
Jogaila | Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke | (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ... |
Louis the Stammerer | ... 6 – 12 December 884), King of Western Francia, was the youngest son of King | and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother Louis ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
Cyrus | ... gly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, Alexander the Great, and | alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, 1999). For ... |
Alexandrine | He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen | , born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ... |
Usman dan Fodio | ... rly an empire in decline, and in 1808 Fulani warriors conquered Ngazargamu. | led the Fulani thrust and proclaimed a jihad (holy war) on the irreligious ... |
Æscwine | ... t evidently lost some degree of control over the south as a result; in 675, | , one of the kings of the West Saxons, fought him at Biedanheafde. It is n ... |
Cadwallon ap Cadfan | After Edwin was killed in battle against | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfr ... |
Alexander III | When Wallace was growing up, King | ruled Scotland. His reign had seen a period of peace and economic stabilit ... |
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus | In the early 6th century BC, during the reign of Rome's fifth king | , the Sabines attacked Rome. Tarquinius had been preparing to construct a ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... uangxu's consort became the Empress Dowager Longyu. In another coup de'tat, | overthrew the last Qing emperor, and forced empress Dowager Longyu to sign ... |
Charles VIII | ... war with the League of the Public Weal. The matter became more urgent after | 's invasion of Italy (known as the First Peninsular War) |
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi | ... The soba yōnin increased in importance during the time of the fifth shogun | , when a wakadoshiyori, Inaba Masayasu, assassinated Hotta Masatoshi, the ... |
Charlemagne | ... The Visigoths ruled in Girona until it was conquered by the Moors. Finally, | reconquered it in 785 and made it one of the fourteen original countships ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... rand duchy" was the Medici sovereignty of Tuscany under overlordship of the | s. They received the title in 1569. Tuscany remained a grand duchy until 1 ... |
Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while | , was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ... |
Servius Tullius | ... she had a temple on the north side of the Forum Boarium, allegedly built by | , destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by Marcus Furius Camillus in 396 B.C. ... |
Pinklao | ... on during the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV. It was his brother, Vice-king | , who, after watching demonstration of Western dining etiquette by America ... |
Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
Licinius | # The status of the lapsed in the persecution under | The council was formally opened May 20, in the central structure of the im ... |
Oswald of Bernicia | ... paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the Christian | , who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as t ... |
Louis III of France | ... ammerer and Ansgarde of Burgundy, and became king, jointly with his brother | , on his father's death in 879 |
Decebalus | ... Second Dacian War), the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed. | fled but, rather than being captured by the Roman cavalry, committed suici ... |
German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... Margaret of Prussia, daughter of German Emperor Frederick III and sister of | . Nicholas flatly declared that he would rather become a monk than marry t ... |
William II | ... ded to abdicate in 1840. Royal power was curbed during the reign of his son | in a constitution ordered by the King to prevent the Revolution of 1848 fr ... |
Alexander the Great | ... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East, | 's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ... |
George II | ... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign of | and designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ... |
Charlemagne | ... that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire (although | had nearly done so around 800 CE). However, France's constant warfare with ... |
Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... ost Honourable Privy Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the | , Charles V, accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was kni ... |
Herod the Great | ... for 103 years before yielding to the Herodian Dynasty in 37 BCE. Even then, | tried to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princ ... |
Domitian | ... edman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor | , this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, then lost support ... |
Alfred the Great | ... dorus Siculus. Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians (e.g. | ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruct ... |
Sun Quan | ... divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north, | (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and Liu Bei (161–223 CE) dominating the ... |
Muhammad | ... ion for all those righteous Christians who were there before the arrival of | |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
Louis VIII of France | ... ring Albi). After the citizens refused to open the gates of Avignon to King | and the papal Legate, a three month siege ensued starting on 10 June 1226, ... |
Harthacnut | ... lish king. She had returned to England (at least) by 1036, while Emma's son | was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king Magnus I, and the Swed ... |
Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
Ali az-Zahir | ... Byzantine Empire in 1027-8 an agreement was reached whereby the new Caliph | (Al-Hakim's son) agreed to allowing the rebuilding and redecoration of the ... |
Louis XVIII | ... ater lost this status under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by | and Napoleon III, only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution ... |
Saladin | ... 1177, at the head of the army of the kingdom, he helped King Baldwin defeat | at the Battle of Montgisard; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptat ... |
William III | William II died in 1849. He was succeeded by his son, King | , a rather conservative, even a reactionary man. William III was sharply o ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... vity. His fourth wife was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of | and Eurydice of Egypt, by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He ... |
Crown Prince Frederick | ... was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of | and Princess Louise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise) ... |
Wilhelmina | ... year later, Queen Emma gave birth to their daughter and the royal heiress, | |
David | ... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, | and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... e for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. His father, Sir Thomas, | 's chamberlain, also secured a joint patent in survivorship with his son f ... |
García Sánchez III of Navarre | ... e, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, | . While Ferdinand inaugurated the rule of the Navarrese Jiménez dynasty ov ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... e delivered this ultimatum to the Lombard envoy who was sent by the Emperor | , who was the pretender's uncle and had seized the throne from the pretend ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by | but demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the ti ... |
Muhammad | The Hadith (a collection of sayings attributed to | and his companions) includes statements taken as supporting the death pena ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture. | (193-211) added a pentagonal temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed ... |
Richard | ... vember. Only in the summer of 882, Vienne was taken after being besieged by | , Count of Autun |
Zeno | ... s together that he set out in 488, by commission from the Byzantine emperor | , to recover Italy from Odoacer. By 493 Ravenna was taken, where Theodoric ... |
Henry VII | ... bourgeois respectability. Lynom lost his position as King's Solicitor when | defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, but he was ... |
Juliana | ... complete extinction until 1909, when Wilhemina gave birth to her daughter, | . The Dutch royal house remained quite small until the latter 1930s and th ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... ersians, who incorporated them and their lands into the new Persian Empire. | , founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of ... |
Penda of Mercia | After Edwin was killed in battle against Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfrith taking power in the sub-ki ... |
Alexander I | ... e Diet of Porvoo in 1809 was a landmark in the History of Finland. The Tsar | confirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... English volunteers, had lost his hereditary lands in the Palatinate to the | Ferdinand II. Having agreed to help his brother-in-law regain the Palatina ... |
Vespasian | Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor | in around 70–72 AD. The site chosen was a flat area on the floor of a low ... |
Muhammad | The khutbah originates from the practice of the Islamic prophet, | , who used to deliver words of exhortation, instruction, or command at gat ... |
King Christian IX | ... lace in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather | . His father was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the ... |
Puyi | ... empty, he was succeeded by Cixi's handpicked heir, his two year old nephew | , who became the Xuantong Emperor. Guangxu's consort became the Empress Do ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
Napoleon III | The war with Prussia, initiated by | in July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September Paris i ... |
Henry II | ... er. In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop in Derbyshire by King | . The hilltop Monks' Road and the Abbot's Chair in Glossop is a reminder o ... |
Saul | ... break-up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by | , David and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. Aft ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future | ), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ar withdraws at the last minute after learning his true identity is that of | (who assumed another identity hoping he will get a rare chance to compete ... |
Hadrian | ... demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the time of | , and its site probably lies under the church of Santi Martina e Luca |
Constantine IX Monomachos | ... ing was finally completed with the financing of the huge expense by Emperor | and Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople in 1048. As a concession, the m ... |
Trajan | ... er ascribed to him) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Emperor | 's reign, or 101 AD |
Taytu Betul | ... rt. By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen | , had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ... |
Julia Domna | ... Gaul (now Lyon, France), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and | . At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius B ... |
Queen Margaret | ... e Lancastrians and the Yorkists. With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, | used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, a ... |
Prince Christian of Denmark | ... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was | (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... saoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to | in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello. He stayed with his retinue in Lo ... |
Liu Bei | ... o Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and | (161–223 CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By Decembe ... |
Aragorn | ... ess, nightmares, and eventual death: an effect known as "the Black Breath". | used the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frod ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... lizabeth would make him a Prince and Field Marshal on becoming Empress. The | would also make Razumovsky a Count of the Holy Roman Empire |
Æthelric | ... th-century Anglo-Saxon genealogies (of doubtful historicity) was the son of | and grandson of Ida |
Edward III of England | ... ly associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), | sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and ... |
Queen Anne | ... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law | |
Charles, duke of Lorraine | ... le de Montpensier, while the archduke took more fortresses in Flanders, and | , with an army of plundering mercenaries, marched through Champagne to joi ... |
Rupert of Germany | ... Scandinavian king, Eric of Pomerania. Count Palatine John was a son of King | . In 1445, Christopher married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November ... |
Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of | . Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ... |
Tullus Hostilius | ... man champion at the time of Romulus. This would make her the grandmother of | , the fourth king of Rome |
Charles II | ... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London by | in 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ... |
Charles the Fat | ... on 12 December 884 and was succeeded in the rule by his cousin, the Emperor | |
Alexander the Great | ... lity of advanced civilizations in ancient Turkmenistan including finds at . | conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to South Asia. In ... |
Rehoboam | ... of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept | , the son of Solomon, as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah rem ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... s Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor | . He was later given the , which referred to the Gallic hooded tunic he ha ... |
Prince George of Denmark | ... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband, | in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ... |
Ludwig I of Bavaria | ... mples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for | between 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens V ... |
Crown Prince Naruhito | ... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when | of Japan studied there (1983–85) |
Gustav I of Sweden | ... his deceased sister's, the House of Vasa. His great-nephew the future King | had been born a few years before Sten's death. At the time, however, none ... |
King George II | ... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to | , for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000 |
Princess Irulan | ... mperor Paul remains in a political marriage with Shaddam's eldest daughter, | , and has yet to beget another child with his true love Chani. His rule is ... |
Edward IV of England | ... abeth "Jane" Shore (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King | , the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... ghthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, | , to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, ... |
Frederick III | ... ties of the Franc (Flanders), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father | proving decisive. Both sides came to terms in the Peace of Senlis in 1493, ... |
Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
Baldwin II | ... Alexios Strategopoulos captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, | . Michael VIII entered the city on 15 August and had himself crowned toget ... |
Wilhelm II | ... elves at the front of the movement, and on 7 November, demanded that Kaiser | abdicate. When he refused, Prince Max of Baden simply announced that he ha ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... iblings and a very small number of the otherwise close-knit Romanov family: | (husband of Nicholas's sister Xenia), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovic ... |
Domitian | ... a decade with the unfavourable (and to some, shameful) peace negotiated by | 's ministers |
Henry VII | ... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of | at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ... |
Cao Pi | ... CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By December his son | (187–226 CE) had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known po ... |
Tiberius | ... dici, or veterinarians. Using these stations in chariot relays, the emperor | hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, Drusus Germanicus, who was dying ... |
Felipe, Prince of Asturias | ... na to his first-born son, Alfonso. The title is currently carried by Prince | , the first since the 16th century to do so |
Solomon | ... United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, David and | , which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tri ... |
Guangxu Emperor | ... e to become a modern Meiji-style constitutional monarchy was drafted by the | in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who plac ... |
Edward I of England | Quo warranto had its origins in an attempt by King | to investigate and recover royal lands, rights, and franchises in England, ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
King Henry II | ... ly member of the family to Ireland was during 1171, as a Standard Bearer to | . The surnames "Wesley" was adopted from a childless wealthy cousin, Garre ... |
William, Prince of Orange | ... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under | 's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands |
King Louis XIV of France | ... heir in William III's will. The principality was captured by the forces of | under François Adhémar de Monteil, Count of Grignan, in the Franco-Dutch W ... |
Numa Pompilius | Fons was the son of Juturna and Janus. | , second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of ... |
Empress Dowager Cixi | ... drafted by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but was opposed and stopped by the | , who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further ... |
Muhammad | ... those who denied the truth even after clarification in its ultimate form by | (he uses term Itmam al-hujjah), hence, he considers this command for a par ... |
Humayun | ... ammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan, an adversary of the Mughal emperor | , was content if Bengal was given to him in return of the emperor retainin ... |
Richard III | ... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of | at Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ... |
Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
Augustus | ... der the empire, one public and one private. The Cursus publicus, founded by | , carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. ... |
Peleus | ... fused with another sea goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of | and mother of Achilles during Classical times. Some myths imply a second g ... |
Nero | ... ited. It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which | seized much of the area to add to his personal domain. He built the grandi ... |
Ohthere | ... wulf as Hrefnesholt, the Geatish hillfort which became the prison of Onela, | and their mother until their rescue by Ongenþeow |
Xenia | ... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister | ), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ... |
Iasion | ... r of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, Demeter lured | away from the other revelers. They proceeded to have intercourse in a plou ... |
Elizabeth | ... 's Men during the winter of 1612, in celebration of the wedding of Princess | and Frederick V, Elector Palatine |
Murad IV | ... ul. The flight was said to be undertaken at the time of the birth of Sultan | 's daughter. As Evliya Celebi wrote, Lagari proclaimed before launch "O my ... |
Eric of Pomerania | ... r married Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430 – 25 November 1495), in Copenhagen. | was deposed as king of Denmark and Sweden in 1439. As Eric's nephew, Chris ... |
Decebalus | During the following winter, King | launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this w ... |
Gustav III of Sweden | ... named after Sten Sture. In 1792 it was a prison, where the murderer of King | was jailed before hi |
Antigonus II Gonatas | ... er of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and | . His second wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, ... |
Jehoash of Judah | ... ise had prophetic powers. And thinking a child of seven – the age of Joas ( | ) in the Second Book of Kings – too young to have the part given him in At ... |
Tullus Hostilius | In the 7th century BC, during the reign of Rome's third king | , the Sabines and the Romans again warred. The pretexts for the war were, ... |
Septimius Severus | ... drian's Wall in the summer and autumn. Constantius's campaign, like that of | before it, probably advanced far into the north without achieving great su ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | ... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King | ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ... |
Achilles | ... a goddess who became the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of Peleus and mother of | during Classical times. Some myths imply a second generation relationship ... |
Philip the Arab | ... th her consort Adonis ("Lord", the Aramaic translation of "Baal."). Emperor | (244–249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis: the hexagonal fore ... |
Babur | The sovereign's name was also declared in khutbas during the Mughal rule | ;was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan ... |
Leopold I of Belgium | ... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned by | in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ... |
Henry VI | ... land on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King | , before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign and taking Tudor ... |
Charles XIII | ... he Swedish throne because the Swedish royal family was dying out with King | . Baron Carl Otto Mörner (22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868), who was a Swedish ... |
Emperor Henry III | ... ed, in Juan de Mariana, who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the | urged Victor II to prohibit under severe penalties the use of the imperial ... |
Frithuwold | ... en a charter shows Wulfhere confirming a grant made to Bishop Eorcenwald by | , a sub-king in Surrey, which may have extended north into modern Buckingh ... |
Louis VIII | ... his son, also named Raymond. In 1223, Philippe II died and was succeeded by | . In 1224, Amaury de Montfort abandoned Carcassonne. The son of Raymond-Ro ... |
Henry III of Castile | ... lian expedition led by Juan de Bethencourt conquered the Canary Islands for | |
Oswiu | ... t of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, Oswald, and | fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been seen as caus ... |
Arthur | Chapter 56 discusses twelve battles fought and won by | , here called dux bellorum (war leader) rather than king |
Numa Pompilius | ... n customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by | , second king of Rome and a Sabine |
Charlemagne | ... part of Frisia, Groningen became a part of the Frankish Empire around 785. | assigned the Christianization of this new possession to Ludger. In the 11t ... |
Fulvia Plautilla | ... ank space next to Caracalla's. Among those killed were Caracalla's ex-wife, | , and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in- ... |
Charles the Fat | ... the northern parts of Boso's realm. They united their forces with those of | and unsuccessfully besieged Vienne from August to November. Only in the su ... |
Trajan | ... t was banished from Rome to the Chersonesus during the reign of the Emperor | and was set to work in a stone quarry. Finding on his arrival that the pri ... |
Solomon | ... te tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam, the son of | , as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the h ... |
Peter III of Aragon | ... e 11th century. The ancient countship later became a duchy (1351) when King | gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King Ferdinan ... |
Alexander the Great | ... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor that | had been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ... |
Haakon VII of Norway | ... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King | and Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ... |
Infanta Joanna | ... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married | , daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ... |
Claudius | ... C campaign in Spain. The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of | and was never rebuilt |
Charles II of Spain | In 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King | , war broke out over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Althoug ... |
Count Roger I | Agrigento was captured by the Normans under | in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there. The population declined ... |
Queen Victoria | ... stop on the East Coast Main Line and Cross Country Route. Opened in 1850 by | , it was the first covered railway station in the world and was much copie ... |
Edward, Earl of March | ... , Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against | . They were defeated. Owen was subsequently executed, beheaded at Hereford ... |
Latinus | In Roman mythology, Marica was a nymph, the mother of | . Latinus was fathered by Faunus, who was also occasionally referred to as ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. The son of | , Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgu ... |
Solomon | ... occurred 143 years and eight months after Hiram of Tyre sent assistance to | for the building of the Temple. Using the 825 date, this Tyrian record wou ... |
William III | ... illiam died of smallpox on November 6, 1650, leaving only a posthumous son, | (*November 14, 1650). Since there was no Prince of Orange upon the death o ... |
Hezekiah | ... s that they failed to enforce worship of Yahweh alone. Of the "good" kings, | (727–698 BCE) is noted for his efforts at stamping out idolatry (in this c ... |
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich | ... e). Alexandra disliked in particular the family of Nicholas's senior uncle, | , and his wife Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who, during the war, openly ... |
Trajan | ... turn. Nero (54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter | ;(98-117) added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of p ... |
William III of Orange | ... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for | . The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ... |
Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
dynasty of Shaka | ... er a single king and made internal divisions and civil wars inevitable. The | was deposed, and the Zulu country portioned among eleven Zulu chiefs, incl ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... ld at that point become overwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by | and Cardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's ... |
Oswiu of Northumbria | ... father, Penda, was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against | . Penda's son Peada became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdere ... |
Henry V of England | ... p with, and probable secret marriage to, Catherine of Valois, widow of King | |
Charlemagne | ... the Frankish court. Thus it would seem to be a case of a building work from | 's time ("Charlemagne" is "Karl der Große" – "Charles the Great" (740s–814 ... |
Mahinthrathirat | ... der in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's eldest son | installed as the vassal king. In 1568, Mahinthrathirat revolted when his f ... |
Henry II | ... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to | that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ... |
Marcus Aurelius | ... ctor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of | ", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion ... |
Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
Sten Sture the Younger | His first marriage (1490–1495) with Iliana Gädda, produced the son | . He married a second time with Mette Dyr |
emperor | ... from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He became the first | of a unified China in 221 BC. He ruled until his death in 210 BC at the ag ... |
Christian I | ... ied suddenly at Helsingborg in 1448. On 28 October 1449, Dorothea remarried | . King Christopher was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In 1654 his Wittelsba ... |
King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
Archduke Ferdinand | World War I begins with the assassination of | . Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ... |
Cadmus | ... eogony of Hesiod she is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. At the marriage of | and Harmonia, Demeter lured Iasion away from the other revelers. They proc ... |
Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin | After her affair with her lover and adviser | ended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | Though Christianity was allowed to grow until the 1610s, | soon began to see it as a growing threat to the stability of the Shogunate ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... for a short time as a party nickname in the civil wars during the reign of | |
Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
Maha Chakkraphat | ... but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King Bayinnaung forced King | to surrender in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | ... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of | 's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ... |
Alexander the Great | ... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and | are included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... alls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings | , Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layo ... |
Al-Adil I | ... aged villages up and down the Red Sea, before being captured by the army of | only a few miles from Medina. Although Raynald's pirates were taken to Cai ... |
Theodore II Doukas Laskaris | ... employment of the emperors of Nicaea. A few days after the death of Emperor | in 1258, Michael Palaiologos instigated a coup against the influential bur ... |
Gyges | ... hese in the Greek tradition are associated with Sardis, the capital city of | , constructed in the 7th century BC |
Charles I | ... the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as | 's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captur ... |
Titus | ... in 79. The top level was finished and the building inaugurated by his son, | , in 80. Dio Cassius recounts that over 9,000 wild animals were killed dur ... |
Edward III | ... ng of the king's eldest daughter; and by a statute of the 25th year of King | , sleeping with the king's eldest daughter before her marriage constitutes ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
Urraca | ... of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister | was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitai ... |
Henry V of England | ... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King | , focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ... |
Clock King | ... egion are Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, | , and Amazo |
Peter III | ... rts during the reign of Catherine. Under her leadership, she completed what | had started; the church’s lands were appropriated, and the budget of both ... |
Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
Nero | Other emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn. | (54–68 CE) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter; Trajan (9 ... |
Henry IV of France | ... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father | had once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ... |
Edward VI | ... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under | . Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ... |
Princess Louisa Maria | ... ollowing is a complete list of women officially styled as "Princess Royal": | (1692–1712), the last daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he l ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
Isaac II Angelos | ... ilip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine emperor | . Alexios had recently fled to Philip in 1201 but it is unknown whether or ... |
Maximinus Thrax | ... epended on the support of the military to rule, like his eventual successor | |
Queen Victoria | In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of | , the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ... |
Bayinnaung | ... ith an invasion in 1548 but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King | forced King Maha Chakkraphat to surrender in 1564. The royal family was ta ... |
Domitian | ... odelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor | , who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to ho ... |
Hong Xiuquan | ... llion, a civil war which lasted from 1851 to 1862. The rebellion was led by | , who was partly influenced by an idiosyncratic interpretation of Christia ... |
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
Henry III | ... were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, | , and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout establis ... |
Áedán mac Gabráin | ... antly inland from the coast, and penetrated further into British territory. | , the Irish king of Dál Riata (to the northwest of Bernicia), was alarmed ... |
Mary Stuart | ... predecessors from the Eighty Years War. In 1677, William married his cousin | , the daughter of the future king James II of England. In 1688, William em ... |
King David | ... ownfall, since that title was only to be held by descendants of the line of | . The Hasmonean bureaucracy was filled with men with Greek names, and the ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to | , the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ... |
Achilles | Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of | |
King George I | ... James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of | , were eligible for this honour but did not receive it. At the time she be ... |
Henry VIII | ... ntly and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son, | , decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He aband ... |
Eorcenberht of Kent | ... nce in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He married Eormenhild, the daughter of King | |
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he "false emperor" Dietrich Holzschuh, called Tile Kolup, who claimed to be | (who actually had already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When th ... |
Henry | ... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old | |
Eric of Pomerania | ... merania-Stolp, and Catherine of Pomerania, sister of the Scandinavian king, | . Count Palatine John was a son of King Rupert of Germany. In 1445, Christ ... |
Hyrcanus I | 6. | , 134–104 BC |
Hadrian | ... le statue from about 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor | (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Ma ... |
Alyattes | ... by Mysia, Caria, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of | and Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, whi ... |
Uzziah | ... Kirjath-jearim to Mount Zion (1 Chr. 13; 15:2–24; 16:4–43; comp. 2 Sam. 6), | 's tzaraas (commonly translated as "leprosy") and its cause (2 Chr. 26:16– ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people. | , the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ... |
Theodosius II | ... inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under | and Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by ... |
Caesar Augustus | ... Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of | . His literary style was Atticistic — imitating Classical Attic Greek in i ... |
Philip of Swabia | ... while, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his cousin | . The reasons for his visit are a matter of debate; he may have realized t ... |
Ferdinand II of León | ... houses of Lara and Castro both claimed the regency, as did the boy's uncle, | . In 1159 the young Alfonso was put briefly in the custody of García Garcé ... |
John IV Doukas Laskaris | ... rat George Mouzalon, becoming joint guardian for the eight-year old Emperor | together with the patriarch Arsenios. Michael was invested with the titles ... |
King Charles I | ... te. This unfortunate quarrel became the fruitful source of infinite evil to | and to his government. Two parties were formed in the cabinet, and through ... |
Catherine of Valois | ... dynasty – including his relationship with, and probable secret marriage to, | , widow of King Henry V of England |
Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song | ... thematics. When he was only a youth his talent earned him much repute. When | heard of him, he was sent to an Academy, the Hualin Xuesheng (華林學省), and l ... |
Marie-Louise | ... apartments were, however, arranged and decorated for the use of the empress | . The emperor chose to reside at the Grand Trianon. The château continued ... |
Andrei | ... the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, Boris and | to be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal for the ha ... |
Uthman ibn Affan | ... of central Asia. The city of Merv was occupied by lieutenants of the caliph | , and was constituted as the capital of Khorasan. Using this city as their ... |
Louis XV of France | ... Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King | , who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia ... |
William of Orange | ... lowing the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by | en route to Dublin city. He is believed to have camped near the Labour Exc ... |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. Around 1500, | gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert, Duke of Saxony, who could however ... |
King Fuchai of Wu | In the late Spring and Autumn Period (722–481 BC), | , ruler of the State of Wu (present-day Suzhou), ventured north to conquer ... |
Ivan III of Russia | In 1493, the Danish and Norwegian king, Hans, formed an alliance with | against Sten Sture. From 1495 to 1497, Sten successfully repelled a Russia ... |
King James II | Princess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of | (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ... |
Lysimachus | ... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory of | and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ... |
Oswine | ... ng the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father of | |
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) | ... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the | and his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
Josiah | ... E), revived idolatry, drawing down on the kingdom the anger of Yahweh. King | (640–609 BCE) returned to the worship of Yahweh alone, but his efforts wer ... |
Sancho III of Castile | Alfonso was born to | and Blanche, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, in Soria on 11 Novembe ... |
German Empress Frederick | ... was unnecessary to attempt to secure the approval of the people. Her aunt, | , wrote to Queen Victoria that "Alix is very Imperious and will always ins ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... sible form. During the assault on Minas Tirith, the leader of The Nine, the | , cast back his hood to reveal a crown, but the head that wore it was invi ... |
Ecgfrith | ... poet. However, the next datable event in the Historia ecclesiastica is King | ’s raid on Ireland in 684 (Book IV, Chapter 26). Taken together, this evid ... |
Philip II | ... and he did not persecute his Protestant subjects on a large scale. His son | inherited his antipathy for the Protestants but not his moderation. Under ... |
Louis VIII | ... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of | . She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX |
Charles Martel | ... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. When | became the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ... |
John of Denmark | ... ion to his distant kinsman Sten Sture the Elder, going as far as supporting | . Unwillingly he then switched sides and supported Sten Sture in overthrow ... |
Antoninus Pius | ... mple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt. | (138-161) built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary ... |
Leopold I | ... the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
Oswiu of Northumbria | ... how he converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His accession marked the end of | 's overlordship of southern England, and Wulfhere extended his influence o ... |
Baal-Eser II | ... as the father of Dido in the Aeneid may be a reference to her grandfather, | /Balazeros |
Ragnhild | ... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, | and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ... |
Louis XIII of France | ... recusants, he promised to do exactly that in a secret marriage treaty with | . Moreover, the price of marriage with the French princess was a promise o ... |
Theseus | ... t's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological | , who lived - if he existed at all - a thousand years or more before Alexa ... |
Justinian | ... a whose remnants are found along Murat Toptani Street, was built by Emperor | in 520 AD and restored by Ahmed Pasha Toptani in the 18th century. The are ... |
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark | ... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ... |
Cyrus the Great | The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of | , the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE; this sets an earliest ... |
Muhammad | ... tion from God (Arabic الله Allah), who believe it to have been revealed to | , who is believed by Muslims to be the final prophet of Islam |
George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Solomonic dynasty | ... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the | |
Phalaris | ... onies of Magna Graecia. It came to prominence under the 6th-century tyrants | and Theron, and became a democracy after the overthrow of Theron's son Thr ... |
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Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Malcolm IV of Scotland | ... tury, when it was recorded as "Inverlethane". It is said that a son of King | (who was staying at Traquair House on a hunting trip), drowned accidentall ... |
Lysimachus | ... he other successors of Alexander, and Lycia became a part of the kingdom of | , who ruled until he was killed in battle in 281 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was p ... |
Manasseh of Judah | ... erah, among other traditional Near Eastern divinities), but his successors, | (698–642 BCE) and Amon (642–640 BCE), revived idolatry, drawing down on th ... |
Henry IV | ... d at Tours, working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in | 's train in March 1594. He continued until 1604 at his work in the chambre ... |
Henry III | ... osopher David Hume, in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of | (r.1216 - 1272) the English Navy destroyed an invading French fleet, by bl ... |
Naresuan | ... ated Burmese invasions (1584–1593), capped by an elephant duel between King | and Burmese heir-apparent Mingyi Swa in 1593 in which Naresuan famously sl ... |
Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
Prince Michael of Kent | ... named Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express was launched on 26 April 2007 by | |
Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
emperor | ... tas as a divine personification was part of the religious propaganda of the | , under the name Aequitas Augusti, which also appeared on coins. She is de ... |
Harald | ... arried his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, | , and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, C ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... s of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call by | for the exiles to return to their land |
Kim Il-sung | ... mary and secondary schools is greater than the 1,800 taught in South Korea. | had earlier called for a gradual elimination of the use of hanja, but by t ... |
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah | On October 18, 1009, Fatimid caliph | ordered the complete destruction of the church. It is believed that Al-Hak ... |
Princess Louise of Sweden | ... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and | (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ... |
Muhammad | ... al interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran, hadith (sayings of | ), and sharia (law) towards the creation of a more equal and just society. ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after | , Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities |
Valentinian III | ... s the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under Theodosius II and | (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by a major earthquake ... |
Queen Mary | ... egan the process of modernising Kenilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by | for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the ... |
Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
Olga | ... to the tsar, Alexandra gave birth to the couple's first child: a girl named | , who was born on 15 November 1895. Olga could not be the heir presumptive ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
Baal-Eser II | ... e. However, the publication of the Shalmaneser text mentioning tribute from | of Tyre in 841 BC caused a re-examination of this question, since the best ... |
Henry I | ... fonso died at Gutierre-Muñoz and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, | , named after his maternal grandfather |
King Arthur | ... nds heavy scrutiny for being the earliest source of any substance regarding | , naming the twelve battles he fought (cf. Annales Cambriae which assigns ... |
Prince Carl of Denmark | ... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to | and Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ... |
Henry | ... to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to | , the Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, whi ... |
Saladin | In 1187 | invaded the kingdom, defeating the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin. The ... |
Ferdinand | ... g year, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind in Madrid, where she gave birth to | , later Holy Roman Emperor. Philip's life with Joanna was rendered extreme ... |
Alexander of Pherae | ... into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas and Ismenias, who had been imprisoned by | while serving as ambassadors. The Theban force not only failed to overcome ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... skill at drawing the human face is the point of a story connecting him with | . This onetime general of Alexander disliked Apelles while they both were ... |
Dafydd ap Llywelyn | ... s under the patronage of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, and his son | gave St Winefride's Well to the abbey. The monks harnessed the power of th ... |
Qazan | ... aravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and | built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. In 1364, ... |
Philip Augustus | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between | and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son ... |
Hatshepsut | ... he Cachette Court, the start of the processional route to the Luxor Temple. | had monuments constructed and also restored the original Precinct of Mut, ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... of the Pope if they would sail to Byzantium and topple the reigning emperor | , brother of Isaac II. It was a tempting offer for an enterprise that was ... |
Ptolemy Keraunos | ... ely. Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father's murderer, | , apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace. In Anatolia he was unable to ... |
Pol Pot | ... political killings, gives a figure of 2 million. Former Khmer Rouge leader | gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, Khieu Samphan, said 1 million ha ... |
Eanfrith | ... Cadfan of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with | taking power in the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deir ... |
García Ramírez of Navarre | Alfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, daughter of | , in Soria on 11 November 1155. He was named after his grandfather Alfonso ... |
Augustus | ... a few Roman remains, which were constructed during the reign of the emperor | . There was a military camp at Dorlar and some Roman roadwork. The most im ... |
Constantine the Great | The reign of | saw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ... |
Guy of Lusignan | That year he allied with Sibylla and | against Count Raymond, and his influence contributed to the recognition of ... |
Maha Thammarachathirat | ... The ensuing third invasion captured Ayutthaya in 1569, and Bayinnaung made | vassal king |
Paul I | ... uld not be the heir presumptive due to the Pauline Laws implemented by tsar | : only a male could succeed to the Russian throne, although there had been ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... of the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD and, in the late 5th century, under | , established a Kingdom in Italy |
Llywelyn the Great | ... lesworth in 1328. In the 13th century, the abbey was under the patronage of | , Prince of Gwynedd, and his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn gave St Winefride's We ... |
Muhammad | ... ospels as corrupted. The bond extends even further with the Islamic Prophet | instructing Muslims to defend the Christian faith from aggressors in certa ... |
Eleanor of England | ... ncia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and | . Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Constantine Porphyrogenitus | ... rly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of | and an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first t ... |
Pharaoh | ... ngholds, along with fortified cities. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign | Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid ... |
Saul | ... han all the great men of the English, insomuch that he might be compared to | , once king of the Israelites, excepting only this, that he was ignorant o ... |
Sverker II of Sweden | ... According to genealogical research, Sten Sture's father descended from King | (both through family of Vinga and through family of Aspenäs) |
Judah Maccabee | ... xile, however. This Idumean town was said to have been in turn destroyed by | in 167 BCE. The city appears to have long resisted Hasmonean dominance, ho ... |
Rabbel II Soter | At about the same time | , one of Rome's client kings, died. This event might have prompted the ann ... |
Rehoboam | ... petual war between them. Israel and Judah were in a state of war throughout | 's seventeen year reign. Rehoboam built elaborate defenses and strongholds ... |
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf | ... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of | (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King | for their high cost |
Alfonso VIII | She was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of | , king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry ... |
Edward the Confessor | ... s The Last English King (2000), by Julian Rathbone (where he is depicted as | 's catamite), Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ... |
Joachim Murat | ... o a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by | ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-p ... |
Heraclius | ... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor | marched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ... |
Elizabeth Stuart | ... ian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popular | and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... m Almogavars became less numerous. In 1502, violating the 1492 peace treaty | forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert to Catholicism or be e ... |
Tatiana | ... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: | on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ... |
Sparta | ... other account mentioned in Dionysius's work, a group of Lacedaemonians fled | since they regarded the laws of Lycurgus as too severe. In Italy, they fou ... |
Frederick V | ... g Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. Elector | of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protestant, was elected by the Bohe ... |
Macrinus | Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, | , who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ... |
Prince of Wales | ... ing back in Britain and on the King's sixtieth birthday, George was created | . The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlbo ... |
Louis IX | ... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, | |
Atys | ... the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus (Λυδός), son of | , in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty. T ... |
Maxentius | ... d, until the very last moment, that Diocletian would choose Constantine and | (Maximian's son) as his successors. It was not to be: Constantius and Gale ... |
Rhys ap Gruffydd | Owen was a descendant of | (1132–1197) via the lineages that follow |
Anne Boleyn | ... ion and had bitterly opposed the king's divorce, his subsequent marriage to | and its religious ramifications. In 1536, within two weeks of the riot in ... |
Cosimo il Vecchio | ... asariano. Palazzo Medici Riccardi, designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for | , of the Medici family, is another major edifice, and was built between 14 ... |
Tokugawa Yoshinobu | ... an official end in 1868, with the resignation of the 15th Tokugawa Shogun, | and the "restoration" (Ōsei fukko) of imperial rule. Despite of this, the ... |
Khosrau II | This building was damaged by fire in 614 when the Persians, under | , invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperor Heraclius marc ... |
Richard of Cornwall | ... y period of Ottoman rule. Richard the Lionheart retook the city soon after. | , brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars an ... |
Queen Henrietta Maria | The title Princess Royal came into existence when | (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charle ... |
Li Ban | :For the Chinese prince, see | (李班). For the country whose French name is Liban, see Lebanon |
Malcolm III of Scotland | ... ted him decisively. Deserted by his men, he fled to his sworn brother, King | . Tostig spent the summer of 1066 in Scotland |
Charles VIII | ... the Sture family and Birgitta Stensdotter Bielke, half-sister of the future | . He was married to Ingeborg Tott, niece by marriage of Magdalen of Sweden ... |
Alfred the Great | ... unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and | , the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental ... |
Caroline of Brunswick | ... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife | , who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ... |
Pepin II | ... rlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim of his nephew | as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brothe ... |
Carausius | ... one. He ruled until he was betrayed by his Pictish allies and overthrown by | , who, according to Geoffrey, was a Briton, rather than the historically m ... |
Sigehere | ... helm of the East Saxons also died in 664; he was succeeded by his two sons, | and Sæbbi, and Bede describes their accession as "rulers ... under Wulfher ... |
Louis VIII of France | ... unt of Foix and Aragonese crown forces decided the military intervention of | from 1226 with the support of Pope Honorius III |
Rhys Gryg | ... Britons and its southern part soon became Anglicised. In 1215 a local lord, | of Deheubarth claimed control of the peninsula, but in 1220 he ceded contr ... |
Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
Chakravartin | ... peared. The king was considered chakkraphat, the Sanskrit-Pali term for the | who through his adherence to the law made all the world revolve around him ... |
Napoleon III | ... tatus under Napoleon I, and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and | , only being re-instated briefly after the July Revolution of 1830. During ... |
Constantine I | ... s also maintained that exposing a baby to death was a wicked act. In 318 AD | considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD Valentinian I mandated to re ... |
King Charles XIII | ... he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted by | under the name of "Charles John" (Karl Johan). Many honours were bestowed ... |
Timur | ... (1282), during which Abulfeda describes it as a very strong place. In 1400 | pillaged it |
Louis II | ... English eventually evolved into the modern Lorraine. Lothair's eldest son, | inherited Italy and his father's claim to the Imperial title |
Prince of Wales | ... est man in England" and, according to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the | said that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing. Wilberforce used ... |
Henrietta Maria | ... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, | ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ... |
Alexei Nikolaevich | ... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir: | was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ... |
Cearl | ... s clear that he spent time in Mercia, because he married a daughter of king | . Ultimately, he took refuge in East Anglia, where his presence precipitat ... |
Charles VIII | Sture came to power after the death of | and consolidated his position through the victory of Brunkeberg. For a qua ... |
Henry IV, King of France | ... yal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of | , and wife of King Charles I (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the el ... |
King George VI | ... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy." | , as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ... |
Caroline | ... eted in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under George II and his Queen, | , further refurbishment took place, with the architect William Kent employ ... |
Clovis | ... e command of Clodio the Long-Haired took the town. In the early 6th century | undertook to unify the Frankish kingdoms by getting rid of his relatives. ... |
Sigismund I the Old | ... e. The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings | and Sigismund II Augustus) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lit ... |
Allectus | ... office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels Carausius and | . In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained vestiges of h ... |
Richard the Lionheart | ... quarter still existed in the town during the early period of Ottoman rule. | retook the city soon after. Richard of Cornwall, brought from England to s ... |
Wilhelm II | ... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and | . The final version shows a swastika |
Louis the German | ... ngian empire. Given at the partition of 817 to the king of the East Franks, | , Bavaria formed part of the larger territories confirmed to him in 843 by ... |
Perseus | ... he bore him a son named Oenopion, but he committed suicide or was killed by | . In some variants, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constella ... |
Olav IV | ... was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since | , and his parents made sure he was given as Norwegian an upbringing as pos ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... o was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised with the other 39 by | in 1970 |
Pope John Paul II | ... antium Cura) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Council, established by | on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and peo ... |
Theodosius I | ... y BCE. The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor | ordered pagan temples to cease operation |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... iopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy ( | ), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomatic recognition), and ... |
Charles August | ... tive to the Swedish throne had become acute since the previous crown prince | had died of a stroke on 28 May 1810, just a few months after he had arrive ... |
Emperor Shao | ... ately two thousand eunuchs were killed. Zhang Rang had previously fled with | (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future Emperor Xian of Han (r. 189 ... |
Henrietta Maria of France | ... t Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess | , whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain. It was a good mat ... |
Prithviraj Chauhan | As per Bhavishya Purana(Sanskrit-भविष्य पुराणम्), | , the King of Indraprastha built a new fort for convenience of all four ca ... |
Victoria of Baden | ... . In particular, he served as the personal physician of the Crown princess, | , and he continued in these duties while she was Queen consort, up until t ... |
Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
Queen Elizabeth II | ... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular, | never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... g monarch in Spain. He never inherited his father's territories, nor became | , because he predeceased his father, but his son Emperor Charles V eventua ... |
Sargon of Akkad | ... powerful role held by a princess, most notably Enheduanna, daughter of King | , and was the primary cult role associated with the cult of Nanna/Sin |
Lothair II | ... the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's kingdom. However on the death of | , who had no heir, king Charles the Bald tried to gain control of his king ... |
Haakon IV of Norway | ... texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, King | anchored his fleet, including the flagship Kroussden that could carry near ... |
Ingrid of Sweden | Instead, he married Princess | (1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ... |
Alfred the Great | ... ertook a seven-days boat journey from Hedeby to Truso at the behest of king | . One possible reason for this expedition was because Alfred needed aid in ... |
Wu Sangui | ... he city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied with Ming Dynasty general | and overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ... |
Jeroboam | ... efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against | of Israel and was victorious with a heavy loss of life on the Israel side; ... |
Octavian | ... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of | and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ... |
Christian I | ... g in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of | . This victory elevated Sture to the position of a national savior. The sc ... |
Adolphe | ... y, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke | —an arrangement necessitated by Salic law being applicable to Luxembourg b ... |
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg | ... diately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII to | , at which the bride and groom narrowly avoided assassination. Only a week ... |
Math fab Mathonwy | According to the Fourth Branch, Arianrhod's uncle | would die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when he was n ... |
William the third | ... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson | , King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ... |
Yu the Great | ... ated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it to the work of | ; modern scholars now consider it to belong to the 6th century BC |
Tokugawa Iesada | # | , r. 1853–185 |
Arthur | ... a similar story in another work. The speaker relates how he journeyed with | and three boatloads of men into Annwfn, but only seven returned. Annwfn is ... |
Louis the Pious | ... dun-sur-Meuse, August 843) was a treaty between the three surviving sons of | , the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empi ... |
Duke of Cumberland | ... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the | . Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ... |
Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
Carausius | ... romoted to the office of Caesar, and dispatched to Gaul to fight the rebels | and Allectus. In spite of meritocratic overtones, the Tetrarchy retained v ... |
Baldwin III of Jerusalem | ... nald in secret in 1153, without consulting her first cousin and liege lord, | . Neither King Baldwin nor Aimery of Limoges, the Latin Patriarch of Antio ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young | , later to become Henry VIII's second wife |
Grand Duke Paul | ... s a Regent or as an usurper, tolerable only during the minority of her son, | . In the 1770s, a group of nobles connected with Paul (Nikita Panin and ot ... |
Rajaraja Chola II | ... which abounds in rare sculpture and architectural workmanship, was built by | (1146–73) |
Domitian | ... ns, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor | 's cousin Titus Favius Clemens. Clementine Literature portrays Clement as ... |
Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
Centwine | ... ere defeated and the kingdom reunited, probably by Cædwalla but possibly by | . A decade after Wulfhere's death, the West Saxons under Cædwalla began an ... |
Marcus Claudius Tacitus | ... that there was an interregnum between Aurelian's death and the election of | as his successor. Additionally, some of Ulpia's coins appear to have been ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King | when he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ... |
Camillus | ... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general | 's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ... |
Tokugawa Yoshinobu | # | , r. 1866–186 |
Otto III | ... ny-Anhalt). He is rumored to have been a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor | . At the age of six he was sent to be educated in Magdeburg, seat of Adalb ... |
Diocletian | ... ragmentation of the decade in which he reigned. 20 years later the reign of | would fully restore stability and end the Crisis of the third century. The ... |
Tokugawa Iemochi | # | , r. 1858–186 |
Padishah Emperor | ... e caught in a plot to destroy them, orchestrated by the Baron Harkonnen and | Shaddam Corrino IV himself, who is threatened by Leto's rising power and i ... |
Svante Nilsson | ... uently fell out with the majority of the Swedish nobility, most prominently | , and the Swedish council of the realm declared him to be deposed as regen ... |
Princess Anne | ... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, | , Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ... |
Sten Sture the Elder | ... f Sweden no later than 1482, but acted in opposition to his distant kinsman | , going as far as supporting John of Denmark. Unwillingly he then switched ... |
Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
Charles XIII | ... ernor of Rome when he was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive to King | of Sweden, who was childless and old |
King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
Prince of Wales | ... rth. Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as | ; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his ... |
Ealdwulf | In 664, Æthelwald of East Anglia died, and was succeeded by | , who reigned for fifty years. Almost nothing is known of Mercian relation ... |
Alexios III Angelos | ... kas Komnenos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina, the granddaughter of Emperor | and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. Even with our imperfect knowledge of B ... |
Empress He | General-in-Chief He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to | (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Shao (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by ... |
Tokugawa Ieharu | # | , r. 1760–178 |
Fedlimid Rechtmar | Conn Cétchathach ("of the Hundred Battles", pron. ), son of | , was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High ... |
Magnus I | ... e Emma's son Harthacnut was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king | , and the Swedes under their king Anund Jacob. Emma's other sons, Ælfred a ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror | , were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other ... |
Urien | In the Welsh Triads, Modron becomes impregnated by | and gives birth to Owain and Morvydd |
Charles the Fat | ... ter his death in 880 it formed part of the extensive territories of Emperor | . This incompetent ruler left its defence to Arnulf, an illegitimate son o ... |
Saladin | ... Zengi; but after 1145 it remained attached to Damascus and was captured by | in 1175. The Crusaders raided its valley more than once but never took the ... |
Maria Anna | ... ed upset at the child's sex. The next year saw the arrival of another girl, | |
Tokugawa Ienari | # | , r. 1787–183 |
Charles I's | ... ment was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment of | execution on 30 January 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling du ... |
Constance of Antioch | ... joining the Second Crusade in 1147. In the east, he entered the service of | , whose first husband had died in 1149. She married Raynald in secret in 1 ... |
Æthelwealh | ... river Meon, on the mainland north of the Isle of Wight, to his godson King | of the South Saxons. It seems likely that the ruling dynasty on the island ... |
Theseus | When | abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, Dionysus found and married her. She b ... |
Tokugawa Ieyoshi | # | , r. 1837–185 |
Edwin | ... unknown. That he gained Deira through conquest is suggested by the exile of | , son of the former king Ælla, and Hereric, Edwin's nephew, who were both ... |
Otto I | ... he count, who ruled the city and county, and the bishop, ceased when in 948 | granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor Hen ... |
Grace Kelly | ... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie ( | ) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ... |
Valentinian I | ... act. In 318 AD Constantine I considered infanticide a crime, and in 374 AD | mandated to rear all children (exposing babies, especially girls, was stil ... |
Queen Louise's | ... shed the military decoration of the Iron Cross, backdated to March 10, late | birthday. The Iron Cross was awarded to soldiers during the Wars of Libera ... |
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine | In 1606, | started building the fortress of Friedrichsburg and the adjacent city cent ... |
Iestyn ap Gwrgant | ... went. (Meurig was the son of Ithel, grandson of Rhydd and great-grandson of | . Iestyn had been the last King of Gwent (reigned 1081–1091) before its co ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... nce currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and | ) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expa ... |
Alexandros Ypsilantis | ... egan on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities under the leadership of | , but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged ... |
Princess Margaret of Connaught | ... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, | . They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established by | on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ... |
Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
Catherine of Aragon | Using her late mother's relationship with Henry's first queen | , Catherine took the opportunity to renew her friendship with Lady Mary. B ... |
Agamemnon | ... e is the mythological Greek House of Atreus. In Homer's Iliad, the brothers | and Menelaus are dubbed "the Atreides," or, sons of Atreus |
King Alfonso XIII of Spain | ... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She married | and two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ... |
Spanish Match | ... Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see the | as a possible means of achieving peace in Europe |
Catherine of Valois | Owen entered the service of Queen | as keeper of the Queen's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the ... |
Duke of Cambridge | ... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and the | was chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ... |
Tokugawa Ienobu | # | , r. 1709–171 |
Roger II of Sicily | The Norman | (1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who pr ... |
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi | # | , r. 1680–170 |
emperor | In the hierarchical social order, the | was at the apex of Han society and government. However the emperor was oft ... |
William III | ... bourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when | , King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leavi ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II | ... was mentioned in an inventory of specimens in the Prague collection of the | to whom Savery was contracted at the time (1607–1611). Savery's several la ... |
Philip II of Macedon | ... inance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king | (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two ke ... |
Roger II of Sicily | ... had been ordained and instituted by Anacletus or any of his adherents. King | was excommunicated for maintaining what was thought to be a schismatic att ... |
Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
King James II & VII | ... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of | , and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ... |
Galerius | ... 's first appointee for the office of Caesar was Constantius; his second was | , a native of Felix Romuliana. According to Lactantius, Galerius was a bru ... |
Wilhelmina | ... ng a male heir, so that in the Netherlands he was succeeded by his daughter | and, in the Luxembourgish Grand Duchy, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adol ... |
Tokugawa Yoshimune | # | , r. 1716–174 |
Heinrich II | ... athedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under German Emperor | |
Chongzhen Emperor | ... g, a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Ming | committed suicide when the city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied ... |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia | ... a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and | |
Valens | ... ed by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, Constantius II and | . Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsu ... |
Tokugawa Ieshige | # | , r. 1745–176 |
Catherine of Aragon | ... nd was now part of her household. It was in the household of King Henry and | 's daughter, Lady Mary, that Catherine Parr caught the attention of the Ki ... |
King Arthur | ... ho was stolen away from her when he was three days old and later rescued by | |
Tokugawa Ietsugu | # | , r. 1713–171 |
Theobald IV of Champagne | ... Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped by | and the papal legate to France, Romano Bonaventura, she organized an army. ... |
Mahmud of Ghazni | The emigration from India likely took place in the context of the raids by | As these soldiers were defeated, they were moved west with their families ... |
Tokugawa Iemitsu | # | , r. 1623–165 |
James I | ... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for both | and Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ... |
Alfred the Great | ... the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex emerged as the dominant English kingdom. | secured Wessex, achieved dominance over western Mercia, and assumed the ti ... |
Mary II of England and Scotland | Princess Mary (later Queen | ) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia ... |
Julian the Apostate | ... times re-establish paganism into the seat of the Emperor (see Arbogast and | ). Arians and Meletians soon regained nearly all of the rights they had lo ... |
Pleuratus | ... enia and Attalus I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Illyrians | and Scerdilaidas |
Charles II | ... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of | in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ... |
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg | ... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince | . The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ... |
Owain Lawgoch | ... n 1372 the island was invaded by Aragonese mercenaries under the command of | (remembered as Yvon de Galles), who was in the pay of the French king. Law ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by | on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ... |
Louis XIII | ... dua (where he attended Cesare Cremonini's lessons), and became physician to | |
Tokugawa Ietsuna | # | , r. 1651–168 |
Scerdilaidas | ... us I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Illyrians Pleuratus and | |
Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
Caesar | ... all gave their votes for it. And when the senate was separated, Antony and | [Augustus] went out, with Herod between them; while the consul and the res ... |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | He died in 1637, leaving to his son | an empire still entangled in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increas ... |
Christian IX of Denmark | ... 1899. The young prince had 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather | , Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grand ... |
Henry VI | ... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include | , Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ... |
Li Zicheng | ... o Beijing. In 1644 Beijing was sacked by a coalition of rebel forces led by | , a minor Ming official turned leader of the peasant revolt. The last Ming ... |
William I | ... dent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, | . Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1 ... |
Agron | ... f the Lydians. Later chronographers also ignored Herodotus's statement that | was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in thei ... |
King Henry | ... hardt's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with | , portrays More as an idealist bound to fail in the power struggle with a ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ... |
Josiah | ... resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of | some centuries later |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
Felix Yusupov | ... two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri (Richard Warwick) and Prince | (Martin Potter), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in Decembe ... |
Charlemagne | ... n in retrospect to symbolize all the Christian Frankish kings, most notably | |
Genghis Khan | ... hen were further altered by Turkic invaders and rulers such as the Seljuks. | and Mongol invasions devastated the region during the late Middle Ages, bu ... |
Edward III | In 1339, in the early stages of the war, the English king | laid siege to the city but eventually had to withdraw. By the 14th century ... |
Tokugawa Hidetada | # | , r. 1605–162 |
George I of Greece | ... them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, | , Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, t ... |
Augustus | ... e Senate with the wish felicior Augusto, melior Traiano ("[be] luckier than | and better than Trajan"). Among medieval Christian theologians, Trajan was ... |
Alexander I | ... ime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar | (who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy and France) from gaining i ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... t recovered by Sauron and sent to Carn Dûm so he could communicate with the | or his Steward, Mordirith. When the player successfully attacks Mordirith, ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | # | , ruled 1603–160 |
comte d’Artois | ... sieur Fayolle during his voyages in America. The collection was sold to the | and was later confiscated by the state. Fayolle, who had been nominated to ... |
Alexander the Great | ... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of | |
King James II | In 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of | , disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ... |
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles | ... bly Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and | and also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were publi ... |
Henry VIII | ... The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on | and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More ... |
Emperor Wen of Wei | ... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as | . This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
Caswallawn | ... nection for Arianrhod. Her father is named as Beli Mawr, and her brother is | (the historical Cassivellaunus). She has two sons by Lliaws son of Nwyfre, ... |
Napoleon I | ... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of | , and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... given on the occasion of his visit to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, | suggested a reading of the events of the Holocaust as motivated by a hatre ... |
Hussa | Æthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of Ida, apparently succeeded | as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 or 593; Æthelfrith's accessi ... |
Hsinbyushin | ... xemplified their possession of white elephants in their formal titles (e.g. | , lit. 'Lord of the White Elephant' and the third monarch of the ) |
Constantine I | Emperor | ordered in about 325/326 that the temple be demolished and the soil - whic ... |
Baasha of Israel | In his 36th year, Asa was confronted by | , who built a fortress at Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Je ... |
Pacorus | ... ound Syria to rally to his cause. The Parthians split their army, and under | conquered the Levant from the Phoenician coast through the Land of Israel: ... |
Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
Catherine I of Russia | Elizabeth, the second-oldest surviving daughter of Peter I of Russia and | , was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 (O.S.). Her p ... |
Charlemagne | ... n to the war in Aquitaine. Moreover, during the early years of the reign of | , Tassilo gave decisions in ecclesiastical and civil causes in his own nam ... |
Felix V | ... ntury Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope | |
Hadrian | ... ere laid to rest under Trajan's Column. He was succeeded by his adopted son | |
Desiderius | ... his position as an ally of the Avars and as son-in-law of the Lombard king | formed so serious a menace to the Frankish kingdom that Charlemagne determ ... |
Sigehere | ... 663), were present. The endowment was signed by Wulfhere and Oswiu, and by | and Sæbbi, the Kings of Essex |
Ho Chi Minh | | reading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ... |
King Charles I | ... rietta Maria (1609–1669), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of | (1600–1649), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of ... |
Oscar II of Sweden | ... dfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, | , his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Prince of Wales ( ... |
Jane Seymour | ... began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen | , but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept H ... |
Louis XVIII | ... s of their lives they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King | was worried that he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was d ... |
Constantius II | ... himself was succeeded by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, | and Valens. Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues ... |
Prince Felix Yusupov | ... d to his murder in December 1916. Amongst the conspirators was the nobleman | , married to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna's daughter, Princess Irina o ... |
William III | ... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province, | let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ... |
Oswald | ... king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons Eanfrith, | , and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle has been ... |
Eric Bloodaxe | ... f Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband | , Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him. The composition ... |
Zenobia | The Augustan History ("Tyrrani Triginta" 27, 30) claims that | queen of Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, ... |
Leopold II of Belgium | ... ganized Congolese troops, known as the (FP), were created in 1888 when King | , who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secre ... |
Louis XIV | ... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when | moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ... |
Muhammad an-Nasir | ... e was fought at Las Navas de Tolosa near Santa Elena on 16 July. The caliph | was routed and Almohad power broken |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
Belus | ... us's statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, | , and Ninus in their list of kings of Lydia. Strabo (5.2.2) makes Atys, fa ... |
Semiramis | ... f Palmyra in the late 3rd century AD was descended from Cleopatra, Dido and | |
Catherine of Aragon | ... cession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry’s marriage to | . In 1535, he was tried for treason, convicted on perjured testimony and b ... |
Rurik | ... stly from the Primary Chronicle. According to the document, Igor was son of | , the first king of Kievan Rus' |
Ivaylo | ... e armies suffered several major defeats at the hands of the peasant Emperor | . He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law Ivan Asen III on the Bul ... |
Charles VII of France | ... ritory. The Château Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Hâ, built by | , were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city ... |
Arthurian | ... mary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to | legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another lege ... |
Wihtred | ... is marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, Eadric and | . It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective ruler of Ken ... |
Wilhelm II | ... ple, who accused her of collaboration with the Germans. The German Emperor, | , was also Alexandra's first cousin. Ironically, one of the few things tha ... |
Domitian | Along the Rhine River, he took part in the Emperor | 's wars while under Domitian's successor, Nerva, who was unpopular with th ... |
Earl of Cambridge | ... of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the | and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King | , the last crowned English King of England |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
Ramiro I of Aragon | ... e neighboring taifa of Tortosa and defending his northeastern frontier from | and Raymond Berengar I of Barcelona. The emir, up until then paying tribut ... |
Belgarion | ... asy series; The Malloreon is the sequel. The books follow the adventures of | , Polgara, Belgarath, and their companions |
Pope John Paul II | ... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, | celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ... |
Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
Louis XIV | ... 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by | |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | ... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York, | (the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ... |
Louis XIII | ... ailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited | on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased wi ... |
Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ... |
Hadrian | ... does not say as much, the temple of Aphrodite was probably built as part of | 's reconstruction of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the d ... |
Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
Charlemagne | ... hem as luxury pets, beginning with Harun ar-Rashid's gift of an elephant to | |
Mabel Wisse Smit | ... ch Parliament. For example, this happened with Prince Friso when he married | . This is written down explicitly in the part of the constitution of the N ... |
Eanfrith | ... in became king not just of Deira but of Bernicia as well; Æthelfrith's sons | , Oswald, and Oswiu fled to the north. Thus Æthelfrith's death in battle h ... |
Inca | ... the empire in which he had territory. After the rule of Pachacuti, when an | died, his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporatio ... |
the King | In April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester," was addressed to | (the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of ... |
Stewards | ... Dínen (The Silent Street), where the tombs of the Kings of Gondor and their | were built. It was reached by a door in the Sixth Level, which was almost ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/ | |
Ceretic | The Deiran exile Hereric was poisoned while at the court of | , king of Elmet; Æthelfrith may have been responsible for this killing. Ed ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... uch as the release of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity by Zoroastrian | in 537 BC, and the Biblical account of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus. ... |
Taytu Betul | The site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empress | and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The n ... |
Eadric | ... s through his marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, | and Wihtred. It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective r ... |
Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
Henry II of England | ... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter of | and , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ... |
Charles XII of Sweden | ... Anna was betrothed to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, nephew of the late King | , Peter's old adversary. Her father had tried to also find a brilliant mat ... |
King George II | ... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from | in 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ... |
Kalākaua | ... and he appointed Thurston—who had served as Minister of Interior under King | —to lead a lobbying effort in Washington, DC to secure Hawaiʻi's annexatio ... |
Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... n notables. On 20 October 1496, he married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King | and Queen Isabella I of Castile, in Lier, Belgium |
Hadrian | ... of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that | had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his o ... |
Prince of Wales | Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, | , whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate. In 1605, Charle ... |
Ivan Asen III | ... the peasant Emperor Ivaylo. He managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law | on the Bulgarian throne but after the Byzantine defeat at Devina he had to ... |
Theseus | ... Italy. There the deity appears in a depiction of the story of These (Greek | ) visiting the underworld. These and his friend Peirithous (only his head ... |
Hadrian | ... summer of 97. According to the Augustan History, it was the future Emperor | who brought word to Trajan of his adoption. When Nerva died on 27 January ... |
Henry V of England | ... een's wardrobe, (essentially her major-domo) after the death of her husband | on 22 August 1422. The Queen initially lived with her infant son, King Hen ... |
Todor Zhivkov | The leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, | suggested in the early 1960s, that the country should become a Soviet soci ... |
Alexander III | Lydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian king | of Macedon. When Alexander's empire fell apart after his death, Lydia went ... |
duke of Parma | ... oseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the | had sent him. That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the d ... |
Theodosius I | ... e, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica in Heliopolis. | erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupi ... |
Kublai Khan | In 1271, the Mongol leader and fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire | established the Yuan Dynasty, with the last remnant of the Song Dynasty fa ... |
Queen Christina | ... y was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, and | invited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's a ... |
James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar | ... religion. The western system of education was introduced during the rule of | , when two schools were established in Bangalore. Subsequently, Wesleyan M ... |
Don Carlos | ... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, | , as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ... |
Hlothhere | ... death in 673 is not clearly recorded. It appears that a year passed before | , Egbert's brother, became king. Wulfhere may have had an interest in the ... |
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich | ... ra in charge as Regent in the capital Saint Petersburg. Her brother-in-law, | recorded, "When the Emperor went to war of course his wife governed instea ... |
Cyrus II | ... f the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Croesus was defeated in battle by | of Persia in 546 BC, with the Lydian kingdom losing its autonomy and becom ... |
Hyrcanus I | at:134 text: | , 134–10 |
Nerva | ... took part in the Emperor Domitian's wars while under Domitian's successor, | , who was unpopular with the army and needed to do something to gain their ... |
Charles of Provence | ... 855, Upper and Lower Burgundy (Arles and Provence) passed to his third son | , and the remaining territory north of the Alps to his second son Lothair ... |
Cyrus | ... of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus, | , etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
William the Conqueror | ... land. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by | in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by ... |
Tarondor | ... n as a summer residence, and it became the capital of Gondor in , when King | moved the King's House from Osgiliath following the Great Plague, which de ... |
Harthacnut | ... recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, Edward and Ælfred by Æthelred and | by Cnut, were also claimants to the throne of her husband. Exactly how the ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... tatesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to | and was from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He is commemorated by the Church ... |
Lugh | ... son of Bec-Felmas was a poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and in particular of | . He was killed by Óengus in front of Midir, according to a poem by Fland ... |
Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
Roman Emperor | ... red, as was each staircase. The northern main entrance was reserved for the | and his aides, whilst the other three axial entrances were most likely use ... |
Alexander the Great | ... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of | . The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ... |
Philip the Good | ... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather, | . In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ... |
Jehoshaphat | Asa's successor, | , changed the policy towards Israel and instead pursued alliances and co-o ... |
Henry VII of England | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King | , founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richar ... |
Aragorn | ... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window. | also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ... |
Louis XIII | ... La Rochelle and Montauban. The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by | , following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which Cardinal Richelieu blockade ... |
Augustus | ... e for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of | . The event does not occur in Homer's Iliad, which ends before the fall of ... |
King George V | ... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, | refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ... |
Olga of Kiev | ... ten again, thus tearing the prince’s body apart.") and avenged by his wife, | . The Primary Chronicle blames his death on his own excessive greed, indic ... |
Crown Prince Willem-Alexander | ... he population. The first-born son of Beatrix and her husband, Prince Claus, | , was born on April 27, 1967 - the first male heir to the Dutch throne in ... |
Zengi | ... ces sacked the city in 975. In 1090 it passed to the Seljuks and in 1134 to | ; but after 1145 it remained attached to Damascus and was captured by Sala ... |
Hyder Ali | ... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of | |
Pentheus | ... y, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, which is ruled by his cousin | . Dionysus wants to exact revenge on Pentheus and the women of Thebes (his ... |
King Albert II of the Belgians | ... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by | |
Henry II of England | ... ntagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King | . The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of S ... |
Francis I of France | In 1536 king | invaded the papal territory, in order to overthrow Emperor Charles V, who ... |
Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
Lothair I | When Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son, | , claimed overlordship over his brothers' kingdoms and supported the claim ... |
Edward, the Black Prince | ... St. André was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under | (1362–1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it was a ... |
HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
Paul I of Russia | ... opold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In descent from | , Frederick was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother |
Alexander the Great | Europeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, when | descended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ... |
Sauron | Aragorn also reveals himself to | after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the extended version of The Lor ... |
Sigismund | ... cle (by Ulrich von Richental). Oswald entered as diplomat in the service of | , King of the Holy Roman Empire and of Hungary. His first diplomatic voyag ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His paternal grandmother was | . Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a cere ... |
Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Egbert | ... ulfhere married Eorcenberht's daughter Eormenhild. In 664 Eorcenberht's son | succeeded to the Kentish throne. The situation in Kent at Egbert's death i ... |
Louis XIV | The later revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685 by | , the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased ... |
Harold Harefoot | ... mark. There she became pregnant again and in 1015 or 1016 she gave birth to | |
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden | ... t. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and | , they were double third cousins. In descent from Paul I of Russia, Freder ... |
Queen Mary | ... tour of Canada by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later King George V and | ) |
Beatrix | ... al marriage policy quarrel occurred starting in 1966, when the future Queen | decided to marry Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat. The marriage of a m ... |
Charlemagne | ... tween the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of | , which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms. It ended the t ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
Charles Edward Stuart | ... pher Layer (born 1683), who was a militant Jacobite and supporter of Prince | , the 'Young Pretender'. He was tried for high treason and hanged at Tybur ... |
Oswald | It was also around 604 that Æthelfrith's son | was born. Oswald's mother was Acha, daughter of Ælla, and thus Edwin's sis ... |
Louis the Child | ... own election as German king in the following year. In 899 Bavaria passed to | , during whose reign continuous Hungarian ravages occurred. Resistance to ... |
King of Italy | ... f Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the | (Victor Emmanuel III), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomati ... |
Harald III Hardrada | He made contact with King | of Norway and persuaded him to invade England. One of the sagas claims tha ... |
Maximian | In July 285, Diocletian declared | , another colleague from Illyricum, his co-emperor. Each emperor would hav ... |
Aretas | ... stobulus was planning his death, finally persuading him to take refuge with | , king of the Nabatæans. Aretas, bribed by Antipater, who also promised hi ... |
Prince Friso | ... ithout the consent of the Dutch Parliament. For example, this happened with | when he married Mabel Wisse Smit. This is written down explicitly in the p ... |
Philip V | ... n furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, | . Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appoi ... |
Augustus | ... e. The name Austin is considered to be derived from Augustine, a variant of | . The location was seen as a convenient crossroads for trade routes betwee ... |
Xenia Alexandrovna | ... le harm. From Tobolsk, Alexandra managed to send a letter to sister-in-law, | , in the Crimea |
Witch-king | ... of the city was broken by a combination of the battering ram Grond and the | 's sorcery. However, the Witch-king was halted at the entrance by Gandalf |
Midas Touch | ... volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet, capable of granting the | |
Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
Anne of Denmark | The second son of James VI of Scotland and | , Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife on 19 November 1600. His pa ... |
Emperor Wu | ... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court under | gave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ... |
George II | Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son | were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ... |
Eorcenberht | | was the king of Kent at Wulfhere's accession, and the two families became ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
Tiberius | ... edication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperor | is the day of the Portunalia, August 17 |
Charles the Bald | ... in western France. After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother | defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay (841) and sealed their allia ... |
Charles the Bald | When | visited Corbie in 843, he apparently met Ratramnus and requested an explan ... |
Ahab | ... ued alliances and co-operation with the northern kingdom. The alliance with | was based on marriage. This alliance led to disaster for the kingdom with ... |
Queen Victoria | ... s Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as | in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such fi ... |
King George III | ... e, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 | presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts ... |
Ahaziah of Israel | ... dom with the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead. He then entered into an alliance with | for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. But the fleet ... |
Margaret of Anjou | The unpopularity of Henry's counsellors and his belligerent consort, | , as well as his own ineffectual leadership, led to the weakening of the H ... |
Charles the Bald | ... itionally, he appears to have had a reasonably close relationship with King | |
Haakon I of Norway | In chapter 32 of Hákonar saga Góða, | is given a pagan burial, which is described as sending him on his way to V ... |
Diocletian | ... vanced through the ranks, earning the governorship of Dalmatia from Emperor | , another of Aurelian's companions from Illyricum, in 284 or 285. Constant ... |
Domitian | ... m in legneis, was added at the very top of the building during the reign of | . This comprised a gallery for the common poor, slaves and women. It would ... |
Constantine the Great | ... ructures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of | , during which the Empire was divided into its Eastern and Western halves, ... |
Louis XIV | In October 1685, | , the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
Juliana | After a long struggle with neurological illiness, Queen | died on March 20, 2004, and her husband, Prince Bernhard, died on December ... |
David | ... abylonian Exile. Many of the psalms in the book of Psalms are attributed to | ; King Solomon is believed to have written Song of Songs in his youth, Pro ... |
Philip II | ... ned the Dorian thoroughness with the Ionic grace. Attracted to the court of | , he painted him and the young Alexander with such success that he became ... |
Constantine the Great | In 323 AD, | recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 Constantius II ordered the c ... |
Thorin Oakenshield | ... errands dimly hinted at, only to appear again at key moments in the story. | , the proud, pompous head of the company of dwarves and heir to the destro ... |
John of England | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and | , Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ... |
Mattan I | ... and is synchronized properly with history then this Belus should stand for | , father of the historical Pygmalion |
Louis the German | ... as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France. After his brother | and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
Marcus Furius Camillus | ... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by | in 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ... |
George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
Saruman | ... ed with alterations. As a consequence of eliminating the Battle of Bywater, | is killed by Wormtongue much earlier (at the beginning of the extended edi ... |
Kang the Conqueror | ... im a truly cosmic threat. He was further aided by Korvac, who was posing as | . He was sent to Galactus' ship to steal more power (in particular the pow ... |
Louis IX of France | Some people claim that Isabella formed a conspiracy against King | in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile fo ... |
Alfonso II | ... s King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of Bermudo I, he succeeded | |
Oswine | ... in: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son | to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms |
Perseus | ... escendants remained in possession of the Macedonian throne till the time of | , when Macedon was conquered by the Romans in 168 BC |
Ivan VI | ... fter the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant | was marked by high taxes and economic problems. Such a course of events co ... |
Roman Emperor | Trajan (; ; 18 September 53 – 9 August 117), was | from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of His ... |
Kamehameha I | ... the interior plateau to Mauna Loa, but had to turn back. He consulted King | and was astonished to learn he could take canoes to the south and follow t ... |
Vaballathus | ... on bread. In the beginning, Aurelian had been recognized as Emperor, while | , the son of Zenobia, hold the title of rex and imperator ("king" and "sup ... |
Naresuan | ... s vassal king at Ayutthaya. Thai independence was restored by his son, King | (1590–1605), who turned on the Burmese and by 1600 had driven them from th ... |
Alexander the Great | ... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included | , the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ... |
Saladin | No one controls the main entrance. In 1192, | assigned responsibility for it to the Muslim Nuseibeh family. The Joudeh A ... |
Anárion | ... y known as Minas Anor, the "Tower of the Sun", Minas Tirith was built in by | , younger brother of Isildur and second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor ... |
Imru Haile Selassie | ... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Ras | as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ... |
Blanche of Castile | ... ing Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, | for whom she had a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
Cyrus the Great | ... of the Achaemenid Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by | , was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy)) |
Pentheus | ... troduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. | or Lycurgus) |
Merovech | He succeeded his father | as king, traditionally in 457 or 458 (?). With his Frankish warband he was ... |
Isildur | ... Tower of the Sun", Minas Tirith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of | and second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in ... |
King George III | ... t. John's in Newfoundland. The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of | , Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent (1767–1820), who subsequently l ... |
Elendil | ... irith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of Isildur and second son of | , High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, a ... |
Bermudo I | ... miro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of | , he succeeded Alfonso II |
Empress Deng Sui | ... d then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife | (d. 121 CE) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a t ... |
Coenred | ... iage and there is no record of any children in the earliest sources, though | , who was king of Mercia from 704 to 709, is recorded in John of Worcester ... |
Amélie of Leuchtenberg | Two and a half years after the death of Leopoldina, the Emperor married | . Prince Pedro spent little time with his stepmother; nevertheless, they h ... |
Pope John Paul II | During his tour of America in October 1979, | was also among those hosted by Shea Stadium. On the morning of the Pontiff ... |
Louis VII of France | ... y ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King | the following year |
Hua Guofeng | ... volution, Deng Xiaoping quickly wrested power from Mao's anointed successor | . Although he never became the head of the party or state himself, Deng wa ... |
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Six months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband, | . The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ... |
King Henry VIII | ... into lawlessness, though the Vicar of Wymondham was appointed by the Abbot. | 's Dissolution of the Monasteries brought about the closure of Wymondham A ... |
Saruman | ... know he had actually been in contact with Sauron himself). Denethor, unlike | , did not turn to wickedness, but his great efforts of will, regularly fig ... |
King George V | ... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter, | and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ... |
Frederick II | ... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, | , alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ... |
Lucius Papirius Cursor | ... ea have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which | transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ... |
King George III | ... ch included the profits of the Crown Estate (the royal property portfolio). | agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the ... |
emperor | Despite the establishment of the shogunate, the | in Kyoto was still the legitimate ruler of Japan. Regardless of the politi ... |
Osroes I | ... es was killed and re-taking Seleucia, he formally deposed the Parthian king | and put his own puppet ruler Parthamaspates on the throne. That done, he r ... |
Jason of Pherae | ... ted Athens to join them in doing so. However, their Thessalian allies under | dissuaded them from shattering what remained of the Spartan army. Xenophon ... |
Frederick II, Elector of Saxony | ... he Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of | . His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Fri ... |
Henry I | ... he monastery was founded in 1107 by William d'Aubigny, Chief Butler to King | . William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and ... |
Ludwig II | Maximilian was succeeded on 10 March 1864 by his son | , a youth of eighteen. The government was at first carried on by Schrenk a ... |
Alexander the Great | ... ites. Writing in the 3rd century BCE, Kleitarchos, one of the historians of | , described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. Diodorus Siculus ... |
Demetrius II Nicator | ... . Demetrius may had married his sister Laodice V, by whom he had three sons | , Antiochus VII Sidetes and Antigonus |
Edward I of England | ... ieve Wallace must have had some earlier military experience; campaigns like | 's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landho ... |
Sparta | ... g the coolie slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under | n rule |
Nicholas I | ... seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828-1840. By the time of | 's visit in 1837, Yerevan had become an uyezd. In 1840, the Armenian Oblas ... |
Anschutz Entertainment Group | ... arena which opened in late 2008. It is owned by Ontario, but is operated by | . It is an 11,000-seat multi-purpose arena, and is home to the Ontario Rei ... |
Caesarion | ... ed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive | , the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major th ... |
Sher Shah Suri | ... r more than three centuries, with a sixteen-year hiatus during the reign of | , from 1540 to 1556. During 1553–1556, the Hindu king, Hemu Vikramaditya a ... |
William III | ... irst King of the Netherlands since the death of his great-great grandfather | in 1890 |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... nie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of | 's wife Julie Clary - Désirée had previously been engaged to Napoleon. Ber ... |
Pope John Paul II | Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, | twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ... |
Jehoram of Israel | ... ugh it was successful, the trade was not prosecuted. He subsequently joined | in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war ... |
Tiberius | ... resort. Cicero compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both | and Domitian resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained importa ... |
Napoleon | ... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of | in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ... |
Philippe II | ... penalties on him, and he soon reconciled with the Church. The French king, | , decided to act against those nobles who permitted Catharism and undermin ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by | , they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain |
Hugh X of Lusignan | ... by the king including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220, Isabella married | , Count of La Marche, by whom she had another nine children |
Mesha | ... He was significant enough that his name is mentioned on a stele erected by | , king of Moab, who records his victory over a son of Omri—but omits the s ... |
Alaric | ... crushed with great severity by the emperor Theodosius I Rome was seized by | in 410. This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater ... |
Queen Victoria | ... adquarters in Halifax. (Prince Edward later became the father of the future | . |
Edward the Confessor | ... the foundation of Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster under | had marked it as a centre of governance, and with a prosperous port it was ... |
Ecgfrith | ... nown but which may have been Stirling, in Scotland. Penda took Oswiu's son, | , as hostage, and Oswiu paid tribute, in the form of treasure, to secure P ... |
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... f King Henry I of England by his first wife Edith of Scotland, and widow of | . The marriage was meant to seal a peace between England/Normandy and Anjo ... |
Antiochus VII Sidetes | ... rried his sister Laodice V, by whom he had three sons Demetrius II Nicator, | and Antigonus |
Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
Queen Victoria | ... t play Early Morning, in which she is depicted having a lesbian affair with | |
Tiberius | ... y mentioned) denounced the magistratus and mancipes of the Italian roads to | . He pursued them and their families with fines and imprisonment for 18 ye ... |
Midas | ... ied him to their king (alternatively, he passed out in Midas' rose garden). | recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days ... |
Emperor Zhang's | | (r. 75–88 CE) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the ... |
Louis II | Lothair's kingdom was divided between his three sons—the eldest, | , received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, Lothair II, receive ... |
Alexander V | ... he same year he established himself on the throne of Macedonia by murdering | , the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of P ... |
Odoacer | ... raiders under the command of a certain Adovacrius (perhaps, but not surely | ) reached Angers but Childeric arrived the next day and a battle ensued. C ... |
Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
Kanishka | ... untains to the Ganges river valley in India. Early in the 2nd century under | , the most powerful of the Kushan rulers, the empire reached its greatest ... |
Emperor of Ethiopia | ... Ethiopia an Italian province. Victor Emanuel III was proclaimed as the new | . However, on the previous day, the Ethiopian exiles had left Djibouti abo ... |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were | , who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ... |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... he aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), Emperor He (r. 88–105 CE) had | (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Athamas | ... rge of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to King | and his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the couple raise the boy as ... |
Ramathibodi II | ... e sent a diplomatic mission headed by Duarte Fernandes to the court of King | of Ayutthaya. Having established amicable relations between the kingdom of ... |
Emperor Shun of Han | ... g (d. 132 CE) masterminded a successful overthrow of her regime to enthrone | (r. 125–144 CE). Yan was placed under house arrest, her relatives were eit ... |
Kamehameha III | ... volcanoes while waiting for better weather to continue the expedition. King | assigned American medical missionary Dr. Gerrit P. Judd to the expedition ... |
Lothair II | ... —the eldest, Louis II, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, | , received Lotharingia; the youngest, Charles, received Provence |
Domitius Alexander | ... ed tax rates and depressed trade; riots broke out in Rome and Carthage; and | was able to briefly usurp his authority in Africa. By 312, he was a man ba ... |
Fëanor | When the Elves came to Valinor, the Noldor became the students of Aulë. | was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsma ... |
emperor Henry VI | ... hout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the coronation of | . However the word 'orbis' means 'circle' and there is no record of a glob ... |
Al-Mustain II | ... al-Mu'taman ibn Hud. They served both this Moorish king and his successor, | . Given the title of Al Sidi ( El Cid, The Master), he served as a leading ... |
Ahab | ... Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of | . Despite this alliance with the stronger northern kingdom, Jehoram's rule ... |
Oswald | ... humbria briefly fell apart into its two constituent kingdoms. Within a year | killed Cadwallon and reunited the kingdoms, and subsequently re-establishe ... |
Charles the Bald | ... thaire's kingdom. However on the death of Lothair II, who had no heir, king | tried to gain control of his kingdom by having himself sacred at Metz. Cam ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... an chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lothar III, | invaded Slavic lands. In August 1160 Niklot was killed and German coloniza ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... orwegian king Harald III (Haraldr Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King | in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dubli ... |
Nadir Shah | The five prominent Musahiban brothers included | , the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war. They were permitte ... |
Timur | In 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of | and Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ... |
Charles | ... tle of emperor; the second, Lothair II, received Lotharingia; the youngest, | , received Provence |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... e named or identified individually in Tolkien's works. Their leader was the | , and his second in command was named Khamûl, the "black Easterling" or th ... |
Nazgûl | ... ower of the Moon (Moontower), on the borders of Mordor, was captured by the | and renamed Minas Morgul, Tower of Black Sorcery (Dead City, accursed towe ... |
Prince Igor | The cathedral square in Putivl | is about to set out on a campaign against the Polovtsy and their Khans who ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... rea, resulting in his being the first King of Bohemia to also be elected as | . Under his rule the Bohemian crown controlled such diverse lands as Morav ... |
Empress Matilda | ... 129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the | , daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Cu ... |
Eugène de Beauharnais | ... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and | 's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ... |
Xerxes the Great | ... o provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of | (485–465 BCE) |
Emperor He | ... imperial consort clans. With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), | (r. 88–105 CE) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest a ... |
Dost Mohammad | ... Barakzai family trees, and whose great-grandfather was an older brother of | |
Domitian | ... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius and | resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ... |
Henry I of England | ... rench name for the planta genista, or broom shrub) he wore in his hat. King | , having heard good reports on Geoffrey's talents and prowess, sent his ro ... |
Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... . Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and | , a member of the British Royal Family. To her family, she was informally ... |
Margaret, Maid of Norway | The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, | . As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a gove ... |
Athaliah | ... at's successor, Jehoram of Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying | , the daughter of Ahab. Despite this alliance with the stronger northern k ... |
Owain Glyndŵr | In 1404 | burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ... |
Louis XV | ... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and | to get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
Germanicus | ... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to | ' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ... |
Empress Dowager Yan | ... exiled them and forced many to commit suicide. After An's death, his wife, | (d. 126 CE) placed the child Marquess of Beixiang on the throne in an atte ... |
Maria Leopoldina of Austria | ... King Dom João VI and nephew of Dom Miguel I. His mother was the Archduchess | , daughter of Franz II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, P ... |
Frederick the Great | ... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of | . She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ... |
Oswiu | ... ated Oswald. On Oswald's death, Northumbria was divided again: Oswald's son | succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and Osric's son Oswine to Deira, the ... |
House of Luxembourg | The | accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ... |
Conrad II | ... tz (in 1035 as the royal Salian estate of Silewize in a document by Emperor | ) and St. Johannis (possibly 1149 as Altentrebgast). Even the district of ... |
Finarfin | ... Arda. On the Flight of the Noldor, the Noldor who returned to Valinor under | named themselves the Aulendur, Followers of Aulë |
Amānullāh Khān | | reigned in Afghanistan from 1919, achieving full independence from the Bri ... |
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Marcus Aurelius | ... ing of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of | , but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, show ... |
Charles IV | As early as 1361 Emperor | had conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the town ... |
Ostoher | ... , younger brother of Isildur and second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor. | rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, and it became the capital of Go ... |
Jehoram of Judah | Jehoshaphat's successor, | formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. ... |
Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
William X, Count of Poitou | # | (1136–1164) died unmarrie |
Pyrrhus | ... r V, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of | . But his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by ... |
Marquess of Beixiang | ... fter An's death, his wife, Empress Dowager Yan (d. 126 CE) placed the child | on the throne in an attempt to retain power within her family. However, pa ... |
Atahualpa | ... s Andean Indian auxiliaries native allies ambushed and captured the Emperor | of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took dec ... |
David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
Peter II of Courtenay | ... mer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice of Courtenay, who was sister of | , Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King Louis VI of Fr ... |
Hadrian | ... quatuorviri among them. The latter were certainly still in existence under | (117-138 AD). Augustus abolished the duoviri, no doubt because the time ha ... |
Maximilian I | ... exico, Sonora was invaded by French troops as part of the effort to install | as a monarch in Mexico. The port of Guaymas was attacked by forces under A ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, daughter of Franz II, the last | . Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and first c ... |
Emperor An | When Empress Dowager Deng died, | (r. 106–125 CE) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run (李閏 ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
Louis VI of France | ... II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and granddaughter of King | |
Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
Joseph Bonaparte | ... e, at Vitoria, the combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies won against | , finally breaking French power in Spain. The French had to retreat out of ... |
Edward, the Black Prince of Wales | ... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as | and Geoffrey Chaucer |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... half its original length. Repairs to the church were carried out following | 's visit in 1573 (date and initials may be seen on exterior stonework) |
Osric's | ... divided again: Oswald's son Oswiu succeeded to the throne of Bernicia, and | son Oswine to Deira, the southern of the two kingdoms |
Louis | ... valleys of the Rhine and the Rhone. He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son, | , and remained in his new kingdom, engaging in alternate quarrels and reco ... |
Richard I | ... ns on a red background are still part of the arms of Normandy. Henry's son, | , added a third lion to distinguish the arms of England |
Pope Pius XI | ... pecially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and | in Quadragesimo Anno |
Ordoño I | ... er being the name of the queen of a later Ramiro). Given the age of his son | , this must have been a second marriage |
Bellerophon | Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of | |
King Farouk I | ... ity after a coup was carried out by the Free Officers Movement overthrowing | . By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil eng ... |
Queen Mary | ... ular with white audiences, and it even gained a royal audience, principally | . Subsequently, Robeson was summoned for a Royal Command Performance at Bu ... |
Augustus | The governing structure was changed by | . In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ... |
Charlemagne | When the treaty of Verdun (843) split | 's empire into three parts the county of Cambrai fell into Lothaire's king ... |
Antigonus | His son | offered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure ... |
Mesha | ... his war was successful, with the Moabites being subdued. However, on seeing | 's act of offering his own son in a human sacrifice on the walls of Kir-ha ... |
Igor Svyatoslavich | ... epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince | against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185. The opera was left unfinis ... |
Eumolpus | In Greek mythology, King Tegyrios of Thrace welcomed the exiled | and married his daughter to Eumolpus' son Ismarus. Eumolpus then planned t ... |
Achilles | In the paradox of | and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ... |
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
Constantine | ... o Christianity, Lactantius (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor | and a trenchant critic of all pagan philosophy. In Book III of The Divine ... |
Sparta | ... untered the Macedonian threat with a Greek alliance of the Aetolians, Elis, | , Messenia and Attalus I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Il ... |
Charles VIII | ... Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French king | invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he rea ... |
Queen Beatrix | ... one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of | and Prince Claus, and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the dea ... |
William V | ... 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of Duke | of Bavaria. They had seven children |
Cleopatra VII | ... t between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and | . The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the c ... |
Bermudo III | ... h of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry Sancha, sister of | , King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, Sancho III of Navarre nomi ... |
Ali bin Said | In 1892, | leased the city to Italy. Italy purchased the city in 1905 and made Mogadi ... |
king | ... r the marriage Geoffrey's father left for Jerusalem (where he was to become | ), leaving Geoffrey behind as count of Anjou. John of Marmoutier describes ... |
Frederick William III of Prussia | ... of 26, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King | . There he published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's o ... |
Magnus Maximus | ... 4th century, as the last Roman legions left the province of Britannia with | |
Joseph I | ... Habsburg sovereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, | , as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia ... |
Shaka | As ruler, Cetshwayo set about reviving the military methods of his uncle | as far as possible, forming new age-set regiments and even succeeded in eq ... |
Agesilaus II | ... the city, but turned back without engaging the Thebans. Another army under | was then dispatched to attack the Thebans. However, the Thebans refused to ... |
Manwë | ... nyar. He dwells with them on the slopes of Taniquetil, beneath the halls of | |
James II | ... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards to | to uphold it |
Louis XI | ... rgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of Charles the Bold in 1477. | immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Cambrai, but left th ... |
Trajan | ... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, | , and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ... |
Edwin | ... reign, but other suggested origins include the reign of Offa of Mercia, or | or Oswiu of Northumbria |
Frederick V | ... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of | , who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ... |
Louis XV | Simultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed to | a confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ... |
Æthelric | Æthelfrith, son of | and grandson of Ida, apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians ... |
Meurig ap Tewdrig | ... the absence of Roman rule, Wales was divided into small kingdoms; early on, | emerged as the local king in Glywysing (which later became Glamorgan). The ... |
Jezebel | ... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as | , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ... |
Alfonso XIII | ... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain, | . and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ... |
Ahaziah of Judah | ... king's house, and carried off all of his family except for his youngest son | |
Sancha | ... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry | , sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ... |
Queen Elizabeth I | ... being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of | (any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out) |
Charles X of France | ... e French flag in 1814, but replaced once again after the revolution against | in 1830. In a very strange turn of events after the end of the Second Fren ... |
Ivan VI | ... posed assassination. Other potential rival claimants to the throne existed: | (1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in Lake Ladoga, from ... |
Phetracha | ... bles and Buddhist clergy. When word spread that Narai was dying, a general, | , killed the designated heir, a Christian, and had Phaulkon put to death a ... |
Christian X | ... stival at the park. The first Rebild Festival took place in 1912, when King | spoke to a crowd of 10,000. The day has been celebrated every year since t ... |
Prince Claus | ... of the Netherlands since 1980. He is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and | , and he is the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father ... |
Croesus | ... ia, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of Alyattes and | expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlle ... |
Consort Deng Mengnü | ... 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of | (later empress) (d. 165 CE) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's a ... |
Louis XIV | In 1677, | , in an effort to "safeguard the tranquility of his borders for ever" ("as ... |
Louis the German | ... several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pippin I of Aquitaine and | in revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their h ... |
Luitpold | ... s crisis, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince | , became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in ... |
Alfonso II | ... postela placed the discovery of the relics of the saint in the time of king | (791-842) and of bishop Theodemir of Iria. These traditions were the basis ... |
Empress Matilda | ... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the | , just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ... |
Pelasgus | ... s, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of | and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practic ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
Alfonso XII | ... pos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of | . A period of political stability, of repression of the workers movement, ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
Commodus | ... d in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of | , who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor |
Attalus I | ... n threat with a Greek alliance of the Aetolians, Elis, Sparta, Messenia and | of Pergamon, as well as two Roman clients, the Illyrians Pleuratus and Sce ... |
Domitian | ... the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, | , Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emér ... |
Stephen of Blois | ... itance. The border districts submitted to her, but England chose her cousin | for its king, and Normandy soon followed suit. The following year, Geoffre ... |
Antiochus V | ... ved that Syria should be ruled by a boy rather than a man. Two years later, | was greatly weakened because Rome sent an emissary to sink his ships and h ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... leyn and John Seymour and Catherine's lineage, unlike that of Henry's wife, | , was better and more established at Court. Though not of the aristocracy ... |
Celeus | ... he form of an old woman called Doso, she received a hospitable welcome from | , the King of Eleusis in Attica. He asked her to nurse Demophon and Tripto ... |
Basil I | ... tinople but deposed by a Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor | the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. Called in 879, this Greek Fourth Counci ... |
Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud | ... led of Castilla El Cid with his supporters (Mesnada) offer their service to | . He accepted the command of Taifa of Zaragoza and swore their allegiance ... |
Louis the Pious | Lothair was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor | and his wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesba ... |
Ida | Æthelfrith, son of Æthelric and grandson of | , apparently succeeded Hussa as king of the Bernicians around the year 592 ... |
Henry Curtmantle | ... ss Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, | , who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynasty ... |
Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
Finarfin | ... cond wife of Finwë (the king of the Noldor) and the mother of Fingolfin and | , the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport gol ... |
Matthias | ... support of the Spanish Habsburgs in the succession of his childless cousin | , in exchange for concessions in Alsace and Italy. In 1617, he was elected ... |
Shapur I | ... inor, preparing another campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings | (272) and Hormizd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a ... |
Pygmalion | ... nal information about Dido’s activities after leaving Tyre are found in the | article, along with a summary of later scholars who have accepted Peñuela’ ... |
Elizabeth of York | ... f the rival claimants to the throne. He married the princes' eldest sister, | , to reinforce his hold on the throne, but her right to inherit depended o ... |
Louis the Pious | ... f Verdun, when the Carolingian empire was divided between the three sons of | . Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor Lothair I, therefore called Lotha ... |
Theodoric the Great | #Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of | #Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??) |
García Sánchez | Ferdinand was barely in his teens when | , Count of Castile, was assassinated by a party of exiled Castilian noblem ... |
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | ... find a legitimate heir to secure the Romanov dynasty. She chose her nephew, | . Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had impr ... |
Quintillus | ... support of some senators, probably those who had supported the election of | , and thus had something to fear from Aurelian |
Taksin | One general, Phraya | , former governor of Taak, began the reunification effort. He gathered for ... |
Frederick the Great | ... ve Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of | . During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint- ... |
Charles V of France | ... shield "sown" (semé) with a scattering of small golden fleurs-de-lis), but | changed the design from an all-over scattering to a group of three in abou ... |
Clovis I | # | (466 – 511) |
Antiochus V | ... and was welcomed back on the Syrian throne in 161 BC. He immediately killed | and Lysias |
Ermengarde of Hesbaye | ... was the eldest son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and his wife | , daughter of Ingerman the duke of Hesbaye. On several occasions, Lothair ... |
Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
King Arthur | ... d Cynric were depicted as Saxon invaders, and were killed, respectively, by | and Lancelot at the Battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus). Cynric was port ... |
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ... colony. The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after | , King George III's queen |
Maria Anna of Bavaria | He was born at Graz, the son of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and | . He was educated by the Jesuits and later frequented the University of In ... |
Ladislaus the Posthumous | ... thus resorted to more subtle means. He held his second cousin once removed | , the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, (born in 144 ... |
Edward III of England | In 1328, King | inherited a claim to the crown of France, and in about 1340 he quartered F ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... "Messalina", although they were pleased with her beauty. Her mother-in-law, | readily accepted her as John's wife |
Sauron | 2. | the Cruel: Sauron (‘The Abhorred’) is Morgoth’s chief lieutenant. He was a ... |
Lyncus | Later, Triptolemus taught | , King of the Scythians the arts of agriculture but he refused to teach it ... |
Lothair I | ... n the three sons of Louis the Pious. Middle Francia was allotted to Emperor | , therefore called Lotharii Regnum. Upon his death in 855, it was further ... |
Alaungpaya | ... a starting around 1715. But a greater threat came from Burma, where the new | dynasty had subdued the Shan states |
King Abdullah I of Jordan | ... agreement Shaykh Muhamad 'Ali al-Ja'bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of | attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a r ... |
Empress Liang Na | ... eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent Liang Ji (d. 159 CE), brother of | (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of Consort Deng Mengnü (later empress) ... |
Belus | ... metimes being called Belus II by later commentators to distinguish him from | son of Poseidon and Libya in earlier Greek mythology. If the story of Elis ... |
Septimius Severus | ... storers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and | were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The Itinerary of Antoninus, ... |
Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II | ... e pagan peoples of Eastern Europe. Owing to a regional conflict between the | and Duke Boleslaus I of Poland he delayed the plans for the monastery, and ... |
Catherine of Aragon | ... enry VIII. Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen | . Catherine was presumably named after Queen Catherine, who was also her g ... |
Agamemnon | ... re many plays in which no such limitation existed. For instance, Æschylus's | compresses into about fifteen minutes a journey (from Troy to Argos) which ... |
Edward I | ... unty to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of Henry II to that of | |
Pope Pius XII | ... ls by the age of eleven. At age seven, he received his First Communion from | in the Vatican. He spent sixth and seventh grades in the Fessenden School, ... |
Isabella II | ... solutist "Carlist" partisans of Infante Carlos and the liberal partisans of | led to the First Carlist War, which lasted until 1840 and was especially v ... |
Lydus | ... tories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, | (Λυδός), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the ... |
Demetrius of Bactria | ... tended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom founded by | (180-165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent ... |
Bolkiah | During the reign of Sultan | in 1485 to 1521, the Sultanate of Brunei decided to break the Dynasty of T ... |
Louis the Pious | ... started anew. The revolt in Pamplona crossed the Pyrenees north and in 816 | deposed the Basque Duke Seguin of Bordeaux. Failure to suppress the rebell ... |
Attila | ... ian, German and Gothic in origin. As far as historicity can be ascertained, | , Jörmunrekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partl ... |
Emperor Ling | Under | (r. 168–189 CE) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expa ... |
Infante Carlos | ... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans of | and the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ... |
Charlemagne | ... air's early life, which was probably passed at the court of his grandfather | . Shortly after the accession of his father, Lothair was sent to govern Ba ... |
Akbar | ... kbar at Agra and Delhi. However, the Mughals reestablished their rule after | 's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat. Shah Jahan buil ... |
Catherine I | ... her husband as Empress Regnant. She followed the precedent established when | (born in the lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeed ... |
Henry II | ... covered the whole county to the east of the River Derwent from the reign of | to that of Edward I |
Princess Alexia | ... i in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), | (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). He will become the first Kin ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... ied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of Edward III, through | and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Buckingham may have hoped ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... tially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. In 1966, | in his apostolic constitution Paenitemini, changed the strictly regulated ... |
Anne Hyde | ... rah’s sister, Frances, was appointed maid of honour to the Duchess of York, | |
Henry V of England | King | is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passpor ... |
Alfonso II of Asturias | ... outed their enemies and killed Velasco, along with García López, kinsman of | , Sancho "warrior/knight of Pamplona", and pagan warrior "Ṣaltān". This de ... |
Josiah | When | became king of Judah in c. 641/640 BC, the international situation was in ... |
Paul I | ... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future | , finally born on 20 September 1754 |
Achilles | ... refutation of some of them. Three of the strongest and most famous—that of | and the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flight—a ... |
Ramiro | ... rded. Most, and the most reliable, charters name Sancho's sons in the order | , García, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the Cathedral of P ... |
Princess Ariane | ... ers Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and | (born 2007). He will become the first King of the Netherlands since the de ... |
Frederik VI | ... eived status as a merchant town under the name of Frederikshavn, after King | |
Shalmaneser III | ... pand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Qarqar (853 BC), which pitted | of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the fir ... |
Caligula | ... imprisonment for 18 years (21-39 AD), and was rewarded with a consulship by | , who was himself in the habit of condemning well-born citizens to work on ... |
Bernard of Italy | ... ' younger sons Pippin of Aquitaine and Louis the German, as well his nephew | . Lothair would also inherit their lands if they were to die childless. Lo ... |
Augustus | ... is possible that this temple was erected over the ruins of another temple. | , too, ordered the building of a temple, dedicated to Mars. On a slope of ... |
Bahram I | ... zd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler ( | ), set the possibility to attack the Sassanid Empire |
Esarhaddon | ... C), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennacherib and his successors, | and after 669 BC. Manasseh is listed as being required to provide material ... |
Mary of Modena | ... , and in 1673 Sarah entered court as maid of honour to James’s second wife, | |
Elizabeth II | ... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter, | . Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ... |
Menander | ... 165 BCE) included Gandhara and Punjab and reached its greatest extent under | (165-150 BCE), prospering the Greco-Buddhist culture in the region |
Servius Tullius | ... part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal Hill, during the reign of | , Rome' sixth king, in the 6th century BC |
Hugh X of Lusignan | In the spring of 1220, she married | , "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of Hugh IX ... |
Ludwig II | ... rown prince, against Germany's common enemy. It was on the proposal of King | that the imperial crown was offered to King Wilhelm I of Prussia |
Empress Dowager Dou | ... 81 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested | (d. 172 CE) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He ... |
Nicholas II | ... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of | , the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ... |
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester | ... descendant of Edward III, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | , Buckingham may have hoped to accede to the throne himself in due course. ... |
Shah Jahan | ... rule after Akbar's army defeated Hemu during the Second Battle of Panipat. | built the seventh city of Delhi that bears his name (Shahjahanabad), and i ... |
Sesostris | ... ntiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for | , king of Egypt, the erector of the referenced pillar in Siriad (being a c ... |
Louis the Child | ... mont. After the East Frankish Carolingians became extinct with the death of | in 911, Lotharingia once again attached itself to West Francia, but was co ... |
Otto III | In | hoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ... |
Hormizd I | ... ther campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings Shapur I (272) and | (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (Bahr ... |
Alexander | He also roused the jealousy of | 's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ... |
Seleucus IV Philopator | Demetrius was sent to Rome as a hostage during the reign of his father | and his mother Laodice IV. When his father was murdered by his finance min ... |
Ashoka | ... ts celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperor | who is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day, and therefore Buddh ... |
Charles the Bald | ... against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brother | a co-heir to the Frankish domains. Upon the father's death, Charles and Lo ... |
Gratian | ... rtress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. Coins from the reign of | indicate that Cardiff was inhabited until at least the 4th century; the fo ... |
Titus | ... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, | , Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ... |
Theodosius I | The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor | silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and w ... |
Mao Zedong | ... ributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members. By 1973 | was personally identified with the family planning movement, signifying a ... |
Sigismund I of Poland | ... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King | . They had seventeen children |
Frederick IV, Elector Palatine | ... ts spread over the whole year. The 400th birthday proper was in 2006, since | laid the foundations of the Mannheim citadel, on March 17, 1606 |
Mao Zedong | ... y to only Taiwan, Hainan, and their surrounding islands. On 1 October 1949, | proclaimed the People's Republic of China, which was commonly known in the ... |
Sancha | ... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] | (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written. |
Henry V | ... aces where bone prevented the arrow being pushed through. Prince Hal, later | , was wounded in the face by an arrow at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). ... |
Ulpia Severina | There is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife | , who had been declared Augusta in 274, may have ruled the Empire by her o ... |
Eadbald | Æthelberht died in 616, during Laurence's tenure; his son | abandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of ... |
Hatshepsut | ... or discovered a "porch of drunkenness" built onto the temple by the pharaoh | , during the height of her twenty year reign. In a later myth developed ar ... |
Feast of Saint Louis | ... t a church in the central village of La Plaza Medio and dedicated it on the | , June 21, 1851. The village was renamed San Luis de la Culebra in honor o ... |
Eanfrith | ... Pictland, in northern Britain. His nephew the Pictish king Talorgan, son of | , had died in 657 |
Aragorn | ... egacy comes in the form of her progeny (from Lúthien to Elrond to Arwen and | , who share somewhat of her temperament — especially the healing, though t ... |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | ... interested in international water management issues and sports. He married | in 2002. They have three daughters Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 2003), ... |
Peter the Great | ... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband | in 1725 |
Domitian | ... of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor | . Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in 89 Trajan su ... |
Amadeo | ... Joan Prim and his assassination, the federalist revolt of 1869, the rise of | to the monarchy, the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic, the outbr ... |
Sennacherib | ... made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute. (; ) In response, | of Assyria attacked the fortified cities of Judah. Hezekiah paid three hun ... |
Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
Alaric I | ... othi is also supported by Jordanes. He identified the Visigothic kings from | to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric ... |
Judah | ... called the people forth to holy war against the Seleucids. Mattathias' sons | (Yehuda), Jonathan (Yonoson/ Yonatan), and Simon (Shimon) began a military ... |
Vespasian | ... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, | , Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... nence prescribes that meat be taken only once during the course of the day. | had initially relaxed some of the regulations concerning fasting in 1956. ... |
Pope John Paul II's | ... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by | motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ... |
Charlemagne | ... rectly to the breakup of the Frankish Empire assembled by their grandfather | , and laid the foundation for the development of modern France and Germany |
Enmerkar | ... the Sumerian epic entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in a speech of | , an incantation is pronounced that has a mythical introduction. Kramer's ... |
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
Isildur | Using the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir of | to Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo. Sauron was led to believe t ... |
James I of Scotland | ... nent part of the design of the Scottish royal arms and Royal Standard since | |
Princess Catharina-Amalia | ... s. He married Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in 2002. They have three daughters | (born 2003), Princess Alexia (born 2005), and Princess Ariane (born 2007). ... |
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke | ... wning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, | and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême |
Francis Stephen | The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of | , duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ... |
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... the service of the royal family, in the household of Catherine's ancestor, | . Their marriage alliance with the Ros (or Roos) family enhanced their sta ... |
Hayam Wuruk | ... e epic eulogy poem Nagarakretagama which inscribed its conquest by Maharaja | . Saludong or Selurong which is a historical name for the city of Manila i ... |
Jaan Anvelt | On , Bolshevik leader | led his leftist revolutionaries in an uprising in Tallinn, the capital of ... |
Yahya Muhammad | ... er Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam | strengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Ki ... |
Claudius | ... f condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. It is noticeable that | brought Corbulo to justice, and repaid the money which had been extorted f ... |
Desta Damtew | ... aile Selassie suffered several personal tragedies. His two sons-in-law, Ras | and Dejazmach Beyene Merid, were both executed by the Italians. The empero ... |
Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
Bianca Maria Sforza | # 1494 | (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforz |
Chakravartin | File:Mandala of the Six Chakravartins.JPG|Mandala of the Six | |
Mao Zedong | ... iedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and | tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as regards the "dic ... |
Genseric | Hilderic was the grandson of king | , founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son H ... |
Philip the Fair | ... Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countries for the family. His son | married the heiress of Castile and Aragon, and thus acquired Spain and its ... |
King Hussein | ... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war. | of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ... |
Philip the Arab | In 248, Emperor | had celebrated the millennium of the city of Rome with great and expensive ... |
Philip | Soon after her birth on 9 April 1054, Judith was betrothed to | , eldest son and heir of King Henry I of France. However, the engagement w ... |
Charles V | Although | resisted the Protestant Reformation, he ruled the Dutch territories wisely ... |
Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
Charles V | ... Council. After undertaking a diplomatic mission to the Holy Roman Emperor, | , accompanying Thomas Wolsey to Calais and Bruges, More was knighted and m ... |
Ahaziah | ... litary campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, | and Joram |
Asopus | ... is included the oracular hero Acraephen, who, she sings, gave a response to | regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. Corinna sang of ... |
Wang Zhengjun | | (71 BCE–13 CE) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand ... |
King William III and Queen Mary II | Colleges created by royal charter from | of England |
Charles of Ghent | ... rik III of Nassau-Breda was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland by | in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son Ren ... |
Elizabeth | ... management in which Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress | ), and Frederick II of Prussia took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to ... |
Alexander the Great | ... was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whom | had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the deat ... |
Bruno the Great | In 953 the German king Otto I had appointed his brother | Duke of Lotharingia |
Huneric | ... ric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son | , and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinia ... |
John V Palaiologos | ... , an agreement was concluded with the empress Anna of Savoy, whereby he and | would rule jointly. The agreement was finalized in May when John V married ... |
Yuan | ... owager, and finally grand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors | (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. Du ... |
Napoleon II | ... lted in failure. He was present at Waterloo, and afterwards sought to place | on the throne |
Charlemagne | ... claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned | , king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on December 25, 800, an act w ... |
Elizabeth Woodville | ... er of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, | . When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as Richard III, both El ... |
Xerxes the great | ... mbyses, they went to Sindh in command of Darius I, and also took in army of | at the battle of Thermopylae, where they were equipped the same as Pactyan ... |
Valentinian III | ... son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor | and Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Ca ... |
King George II | Colleges created by | of Great Britain |
Petronila, Queen of Aragon | The dynastic union between | , and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, Alfonso II o ... |
Caesarion | ... bite of a snake (an asp) conveyed to her in a basket of figs. Octavian had | killed later that year, finally securing his legacy as Julius Caesar's onl ... |
Charlemagne | ... start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with | 's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony. Historians Rudolf ... |
Marcus Aurelius | During the persecution of | , the Roman Emperor from 161-180, Irenaeus was a priest of the Church of L ... |
Sparta | ... f Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against the | ns. The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates ... |
Cadmus | ... mpian pantheon. His mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of king | of Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus' wife, Hera ... |
René of Châlon-Orange | ... hent in the beginning of the 16th century. Hendrik was succeeded by his son | in 1538, who was, as his full name stated, the Prince of Orange. When René ... |
Francis, Duke of Teck | ... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince | , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ... |
Alexander | He is the first male heir apparent to the Dutch throne since Prince | , son of King William III, who died in 1884. Prince Willem-Alexander has i ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... as given the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | that calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. P ... |
Nicholas I | ... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under | . Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ... |
Zimri | Omri was "commander of the army" of king Elah when | murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gibbethon chos ... |
Pelasgus | Lycaon, son of | , the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ... |
Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of | , a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ... |
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine | ... t of the German Empire. She was the sixth child among the seven children of | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen V ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted by | in 1972. The university has three campuses in the city |
Saruman | ... in the Second Age at the southern end of the Misty Mountains. In T.A. 2759, | obtained the keys of Orthanc from Beren, the ruling Steward of Gondor, pos ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... eached during the War of the Ring. Sauron's forces under the command of the | besieged the City on March 13. Before dawn on March 15, the battering ram ... |
Æthelwealh | ... y. He conquered the Isle of Wight and the Meon valley and gave them to King | of the South Saxons. He also had influence in Surrey, Essex, and Kent. He ... |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | In 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration, | made Thimphu the year-round capital. In May 1968, the comprehensive Rules ... |
Louis IV of France | ... he Fowler in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King | in 942 renounced all claims to Lotharingia |
Lysimachus | ... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and | united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ... |
William the Silent | ... assassinated with a firearm were the Regent Moray of Scotland in 1570, and | , the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands in 1584. Gunpowder and other exp ... |
Béla I | ... aw, Solomon could recover the Hungarian throne after the death of his uncle | in 1063 and soon after married with Judith in (Stuhlweißenburg) Székesfehé ... |
Lysimachus | ... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King | of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and s ... |
Cheng | ... rand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE), | (r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succ ... |
Licinia Eudoxia | ... s mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and | . Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Catholics, but Hilder ... |
Abibaal | ... ility to the account in Josephus/Menander that names the kings of Tyre from | and Hiram I down to the time of Pygmalion and Dido |
Elah | Omri was "commander of the army" of king | when Zimri murdered Elah and made himself king. Instead, the troops at Gib ... |
Andrew I, King of Hungary | ... ember 1058, when her brother Emperor Henry IV concluded a peace treaty with | ; as a part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son a ... |
Ai | ... ng the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and | (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succession of her male rel ... |
Alexander II of Scotland | ... ed the girl's mother. Princess Joan was provided with another husband, King | , whom she wed in 1221 |
Duris of Samos | ... ion (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, | ) |
Theodosius I | ... ld not improve matters. The Oracle continued until it was closed by emperor | in AD 395. The site was abandoned for almost 100 years, until Christians s ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... again attached itself to West Francia, but was conquered by the German king | in 925. Stuck in the conflict with his rival Hugh the Great, King Louis IV ... |
Louis XV | ... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King | , but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ... |
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville (or Woodville), sister of | , father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of ... |
Ferdinand VII | The reign of | (reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ... |
Charles II, Archduke of Austria | He was born at Graz, the son of | , and Maria Anna of Bavaria. He was educated by the Jesuits and later freq ... |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva | In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by | , an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. A ... |
Sauron | ... es of Minas Tirith. The Great Gate was breached during the War of the Ring. | 's forces under the command of the Witch-king of Angmar besieged the City ... |
Elizabeth | ... tria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Empress | relied, and who acted as a known partisan of Russo-Austrian co-operation. ... |
Muhammad III, "al-Nasir" | The Almohad dominance of Iberia continued until 1212, when | (1199–1214) was defeated at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in the Sierr ... |
Antiochus II Theos | ... e was executed for rebellion), Laodice, Apama II, Stratonice of Macedon and | , who succeeded his father as king |
Shalmaneser III | ... holars have identified Baa‘li-maanzer, the king of Tyre who gave tribute to | in 841 BC, with 𐤓𐤅𐤑𐤏𐤋𐤏𐤁 Ba‘al-‘azor (Phoenician form of the name) o ... |
Johann Georg I | ... Kapellmeister Daniel Eberlin (also a native of Nuremberg), in the employ of | , Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. He met members of the Bach family in Eisenach (wh ... |
Muhammad | ... rts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why | was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in pers ... |
Solomon | ... part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son and heir, | . When King Andrew I died in 1060, his widow and sons took refuge in the G ... |
Benedict XVI | ... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name | . Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ... |
Theodoric the Great | Aspar was the teacher of | , who later became king of the Ostrogoths. Aspar had another son, Ermanari ... |
Ferdinand | ... pire when, in 1520, Emperor Charles V left them to the rule of his brother, | |
William I | ... alighting, proceeded to examine the field". In 1820, the Netherlands' King | ordered the construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed h ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ... |
Felipe V | ... Spanish Army in the battle of Saragossa in 1710. As a result of the battle | was forced to abandon Madrid and retreated to Valladolid |
Catherine II of Russia | ... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress | , who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ... |
Cassander | ... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of | and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ... |
Hadrian | ... s of the Flavian dynasty contributed significantly towards its restoration. | offered complete autonomy. Also Plutarch was a significant factor by his p ... |
Abba Jifar II | ... om of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of King | of Jimma |
Agamemnon | In the original novels, House Atreides claims descent from | , a son of Atreus, in Greek mythology. The descendants of Atreus are calle ... |
Æthelberht of Kent | ... bout points of dispute. Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King | , when the king's successor abandoned Christianity; he eventually reconver ... |
Pleistoanax | ... s, a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king | lived on Mt. Lykaion while in exile from the mid-440s BC until 427, where ... |
Theodoric the Great | ... w, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king | , only by the latter's death in 526 |
Charles II | ... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless | (1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ... |
Jayapala | ... jua overlord, Jayapala, of the Panduvanshi dynasty. The last Shahi emperors | , Anandapala and Tirlochanpala fought invading Muslim Turks from Central A ... |
István I | ... Visegrád until 15 August 1083, when on the occasion of the canonization of | , the first King of Hungary, Solomon was released |
Valentinian III | ... ern usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install Galla Placidia and her son, | , in his place. He also helped to negotiate a peace treaty with Geiseric a ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun by | in the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ... |
James I of England | ... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King | . However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ... |
Philip IV of France | ... of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of Pope Boniface VIII by | , the "Babylonian Captivity." the Great Schism, and the failure of concili ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637), a member of the House of Habsburg, was | (1619–1637), King of Bohemia (1617–1619, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary ( ... |
her father's | ... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary of | death, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ... |
Grace Kelly | ... for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite | and Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder |
Pope Paul VI | ... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her by | in 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ... |
Frederick V | ... ol and Further Austria. The territories were only reunified by Ernest's son | (Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor), when the Albertinian line (1457) an ... |
Josef II | ... ties (1767), and prohibited marriage between Romanies (1773). Her successor | prohibited the wearing of traditional Romani clothing and the use of the R ... |
Leopold I | ... ccession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
Prince Claus of the Netherlands | ... Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and | , and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince ... |
Henry III of England | ... of repentance for her many misdeeds. On a visit to Fontevraud, her son King | was shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediate ... |
Augustus | ... te a history of the world up to his own time (the beginning of the reign of | ). He starts with the gods and the heroes. At the end of this part of the ... |
Rollo | ... verran Rouen until some of them finally settled and founded a colony led by | (Hrolfr), who was nominated count of Rouen by the king of the Franks in 91 ... |
Peter III of Aragon | On March 30, 1282, | waged war on Charles of Anjou after the Sicilian Vespers for the possessio ... |
Augustus | ... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, | , Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Emperor Ping | ... i, Wang Zhengjun's nephew Wang Mang (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for | (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed W ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from | to Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the ... |
Liu Ying | ... CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child | (d. 25 CE). Wang promised to relinquish his control to Liu Ying once he ca ... |
Prince of Wales | ... y Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the | , except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he atte ... |
Philip V | ... er the death of the childless Charles II (1700), the crown of Spain went to | of the House of Bourbon. The Grand Alliance of England, the United Provinc ... |
Aragorn | ... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of | from The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | ... til his death in July 1972 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son, | . The close ties of the Wangchuck and Dorji families were reemphasized in ... |
Nazgûl | ... ains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the | in , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War o ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and King | were facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ... |
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel | ... third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and | . She was baptised in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 186 ... |
Queen Anne | ... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with | , she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from Pope John XXIII to | , who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist L ... |
King Charles III | ... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under | , who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ... |
Sauron | ... l Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the Nazgûl in , the Ithil-Stone came into | 's hands, and leading up to the War of the Ring was kept by him in Barad-d ... |
Commodus | ... liver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor | in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) (for which he was nominated for the Aca ... |
Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is the first child of Queen | and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Jul ... |
Galla Placidia | ... on in 424 to defeat the western usurper, Joannes of Ravenna, and to install | and her son, Valentinian III, in his place. He also helped to negotiate a ... |
László I | ... t for the Hungarian throne; in 1077 he accepted the rule of his cousin King | , who gave him in exchange extensive landholdings after his formal abdicat ... |
Diocletian | ... sis after Lugdunum (Lyon) itself. Under the reorganization of the empire by | , Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensi ... |
Alexander the Great | ... eek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons brought 300 women to | , hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. Acco ... |
Charles Augustus | ... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother | (Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ... |
Pharaoh | ... time being without foreign intervention. However, in the spring of 609 BC, | Necho II personally led a sizable army up to the Euphrates to aid the Assy ... |
Ramiro I | ... arre). After King Sancho's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. | was initially named king of Aragon in 1035; later, after his brother Gonza ... |
Emperor Xian of Han | ... ously fled with Emperor Shao (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future | (r. 189–220 CE). While being pursued by the Yuan brothers, Zhang committed ... |
Emperor Frederick III | ... ar from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the Archduke Maximilian, only son of | , married the heiress of Burgundy, thus acquiring most of the Low Countrie ... |
Licinius | ... n was forced to abdicate again and Constantine was again demoted to Caesar. | , one of Galerius' old military companions, was appointed Augustus of the ... |
Emperor Yang Guang | Between 604 to 609, | (or Sui Yangdi) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ... |
Rupprecht | ... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince | , commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... a period. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to | who completed this process and received the title of shogun in because tra ... |
Constans | ... , often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors Constantius and | declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 C ... |
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | ... his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde. Her mother was | , the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambrid ... |
Anthemius | ... rong candidate to the purple, the magister militum and Marcian's son-in-law | , the choice was quite different. Aspar, who in this occasion was probably ... |
Constantine I | ... cus Aurelius and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by | caused it to decay. The short reign of Julian could not improve matters. T ... |
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | ... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of | , and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ... |
The Scorpion King | ... continuity of the album". An alternate version of "Streamline" was used in | soundtrack, which was released in early 2002, and as a B-side on some copi ... |
Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
Sparta | ... ed Athens for 36 years up to 527 BC. After his son Hippias was deposed with | n help in 510 BC, the family sought refuge with the Persians, and nearly t ... |
Gelimer | ... ven years on the throne, Hilderic fell victim to a revolt led by his cousin | , an Arian, who led the people in a religious rebellion. Gelimer then beca ... |
Anna of Savoy | ... Constantinople. On 8 February, an agreement was concluded with the empress | , whereby he and John V Palaiologos would rule jointly. The agreement was ... |
René of Anjou | ... held by Brabant. After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of | the name "Duchy of Lorraine" was adopted again, only retrospectively calle ... |
Tsarevna | ... godparents were the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Russian Tsarevich and | , HRH Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the Duchess of Cambridge, a ... |
Napoleon I | ... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of | 's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ... |
Constantius II | ... 323 AD, Constantine the Great recognised the Christian religion, and in 356 | ordered the closing of pagan temples throughout the empire. Karnak was by ... |
Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
King Sancho | ... uchy of Castile united under the Kingdom of Pamplona (later Navarre). After | 's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. Ramiro I was initially ... |
Anne Neville | ... Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to Alice's niece, queen consort Lady | . The profession would span five generations down to Catherine's sister, A ... |
Valentinian II | ... ame-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors | , Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and thos ... |
Marcian | ... an religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker with his subordinate, | , who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister Pulcheria |
Geta | ... ptimius Severus, for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother | until he had him murdered in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the mo ... |
Muhammad | ... a furnace, he is said to have simply sat down and had tea with the Prophet | . In a den of hungry lions, it is said the lions slept beside him |
Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde | ... , the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess | . Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and ... |
Alexander the Great | ... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past ( | , Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
Theodoric the Great | ... pse of the Hun empire after the Battle of Nedao (453), the Ostrogoths under | first moved to Moesia (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom ... |
Theodosius II | ... of kingmaker with his subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying | 's sister Pulcheria |
Yuan Shu | ... 189 CE. Yuan Shao then besieged Luoyang's Northern Palace while his brother | (d. 199 CE) besieged the Southern Palace. On September 25 both palaces wer ... |
Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
Louis IX of France | ... Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King | 's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their moth ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... of having had two queens buried beneath its paving, Katherine of Aragon and | . The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her ... |
Marcus Aurelius | However, barbarian raids during the reign of | and removal of statues and other riches (in effect looting) by Constantine ... |
Pope John XXIII | ... awarded the Pacem in Terris Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by | calling for all people to strive for peace |
King Henry VIII | ... nians. As the English Reformation progressed, their friaries were closed by | . The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a th ... |
John VI Kantakouzenos | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war between | and the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ... |
Aragorn | ... y barricade was erected in place of the Great Gate. After the war on May 1, | received the Crown of Gondor in front of the gate and then entered the Cit ... |
Alexander I of Russia | ... of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism inspired by Tsar | . This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in ... |
Saladin | ... and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium. The church was lost to | , along with the rest of the city, in 1187, although the treaty establishe ... |
Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
William I | In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of | , then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ... |
Clovis | ... 440 – 481/82) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of | |
Archduke Charles | ... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown, | . Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ... |
Archduke Maximilian | ... began also to accumulate lands far from the Hereditary Lands. In 1477, the | , only son of Emperor Frederick III, married the heiress of Burgundy, thus ... |
Bolkiah | ... cient Japan and Song Dynasty China. The city was invaded by Brunei's Sultan | and was already Islamized by the 15th century when the Spanish first arriv ... |
Pulcheria | ... subordinate, Marcian, who became emperor by marrying Theodosius II's sister | |
Cleopatra I Syra | ... es the weight of previous finds from the same era and may bear the image of | , the wife of the Egyptian king |
Demetrius of Montferrat | ... rians, and his head was sent to Kaloyan. He was succeeded by his infant son | , who ruled until he reached adulthood, but was eventually defeated by The ... |
Alfonso XIII | In the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King | , who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ... |
Henry V of England | ... forgotten after centuries of nonuse. During the late medieval period, King | (lived 1387-1422) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings ... |
Julius Caesar | ... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. | and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ... |
Sauron | ... he largest battle of the Third Age, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, when | 's Orcs and evil Men overran the Rammas Echor by blasting through it and b ... |
Kingdom of Etruria | ... , the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was converted to a puppet successor state, the | |
Peter II | ... liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew | . The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov. Wit ... |
Theodosius I | ... to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, | and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guil ... |
Sanchia of Provence | ... s (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly | , and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had issue |
Icel | ... on Chronicle and the Anglian collection the early kings were descended from | ; the dynasty is therefore known as the Iclingas. The earliest Mercian kin ... |
Louis IX | ... 26. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued under King | and the area was reconquered by 1229; the leading nobles made peace, culmi ... |
Alexander II of Scotland | # Joan (22 July 1210 – 1238), the wife of King | . Her marriage was childless |
Hadrian | ... hat the decrease of importance of the Oracle after the era of Roman Emperor | was due in part to the fact that there had not been an earthquake in the a ... |
Philip II | ... om of the former Aragonese confederation, eclipsing Barcelona. The reign of | marked the beginning of a gradual process of deterioration of Catalan econ ... |
Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg | ... s Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor Leopold I and of his third wife, | , was born on 1 October 1685. His tutor was Anton Florian, Prince of Liech ... |
Titus | ... arted in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under | , with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). T ... |
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus | ... he oracle was also known to the early Romans. Rome's seventh and last king, | , after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including tw ... |
Odoacer | ... (c. 475–488) and later conquered the Italian Kingdom of the German warrior | . Theodoric became King of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 493 and died in 526. ... |
Vespasian | ... ast of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor | and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being m ... |
Jane Seymour | ... heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, | , died there two weeks later. Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass ... |
Ascanius | ... k of Troy (traditionally 1184 BC), and settled in Latium. Alba was built by | , the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, and founder of the Alban royal line. The ... |
Joash | ... he other defining term for "Israel" is "Samaria", beginning in the reign of | ). The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being ... |
Seleucus I Nicator | ... Myus. In the spring of 310, he was soundly defeated when he tried to expel | from Babylon; his father was defeated in the autumn. As a result of this B ... |
King of the Romans | # Richard, Earl of Cornwall and | (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly Isabel Marshal, secondly ... |
Arvedui | ... and taken to Fornost. It remained there until Fornost too was overrun, when | took it to Forochel. It was lost in when the ship on which he was travelli ... |
Yusuf II "al-Mustansir" | ... h in 1213, al-Nasir appointed his young ten-year old son as the next caliph | . The Almohads passed through a period of effective regency for the young ... |
Louis VIII | The situation turned again following the intervention of the French king, | , in 1226. He died in November of that year, but the struggle continued un ... |
Pandion II | ... as Lycia, which was tenented by the Solymi. Subsequently Lycus, the son of | of Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King Aegeus, settled among th ... |
Marie Feodorovna | ... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, | , were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ... |
Isabel Marshal | ... all and King of the Romans (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272). Married firstly | , secondly Sanchia of Provence, and thirdly Beatrice of Falkenburg. Had is ... |
Charles the Bold | ... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forced | of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ... |
Alexander Balas | The Jews also had a role in the down fall of Demetrius I. | came with a mercenary army, landed and occupied Ptolemais, and reigned as ... |
Philip IV | ... of the kingdoms, and were jealously guarded by the Catalan oligarchy. After | acceded to the throne in 1621, the Count-Duke of Olivares attempted to sus ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ng to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than | . As a child, Catherine could not tolerate sewing and often ironically sai ... |
Catherine Howard | ... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen, | , was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ... |
Pope John Paul II | The Holy See took a firm stance against the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. | 's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the Church to talk with ... |
Æthelred | ... f disease, in 675. Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother, | . Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as "a man of proud ... |
Edward I of England | ... Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom he had issue, including his heir, King | |
Ferdinand II | ... ted Emperor to succeed his cousin Mathias, the ultra-pious and intransigent | , as he became known, embarked on an energetic attempt to re-Catholicize n ... |
Charles the Bold | ... Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King Philip IV of France. The Burgundian duke | in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and ... |
Pharaoh | ... ty, and this focus also changed from time to time. When Amenhotep IV became | (circa 1353 BC), the supreme deity was considered to be Amun-Ra (itself th ... |
Philippe, Duke of Anjou | ... The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, | , Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for al ... |
Augustus | ... r Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather | |
Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti | On 2 February 2002, he married | (born 17 May 1971) at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Máxima is an Arg ... |
King George III | ... r Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of | and the father of Queen Victoria |
Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
King Basin | ... Franks, whose women he was taking; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia with | and his wife Basina; of his return when a faithful servant advised him tha ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
Arvedui | ... to Fornost, they took the palantír with them. This Stone was also lost when | was shipwrecked |
Æthelred | ... g of Mercia. His children included two future kings of Mercia: Wulfhere and | |
Roman Emperor | ... passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty | . His accounts were quoted by Porphyry (On Abstinence 4:17) and Stobaeus ( ... |
Claudius | ... s Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander) the Emperor | later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus |
Alexander III | ... only securely became part of Scotland during Alexander II's reign in 1234: | visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, pr ... |
Mary | ... ame Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the succession of Queen | . He went to Denmark (where his brother-in-law was chaplain to the king), ... |
Charles II | ... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, | gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ... |
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... to I granted the bishop with temporal powers over the city. In 1007 emperor | , extended the bishop's temporal power to the territory surrounding Cambra ... |
Empress Anna | With the death of her father and the later accession of the | , no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court t ... |
Sancho Ramírez | Already in 1095 troops named Almogavars served King | I of Aragon. These forces took part in the conquest of a Muslim city, whic ... |
Arcadius | ... hortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and | declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were ... |
John | ... at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, King | . A week after his consecration he again appeared before the king with the ... |
Theodosius II | ... hed in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor | , i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of ... |
Heraclius | ... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of | . While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ... |
Cleomenes III | ... on in 227 BC between the Achaean League under Aratus and the Spartans under | . Although the details are vague, both authors make it clear that the Acha ... |
Claudius | ... and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of Emperor | (41–54 CE), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, ... |
Seleucus I | ... ives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father | , Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poli ... |
Eleanor of Provence | # King Henry III of England (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married | , by whom he had issue, including his heir, King Edward I of England |
Emperor Jing | Emperor Gengshi of Han (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of | (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to restore the Han Dynasty and occupied Chang' ... |
Nero | When | came to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from De ... |
Witch-king of Angmar | ... g steeds figure prominently in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where the | , the Lord of the Nazgûl, rides one against King Théoden of Rohan. Tolkien ... |
Tibni | ... y seven days. Although Zimri was eliminated, "half of the people" supported | in opposition to Omri. It took Omri four years to subdue Tibni and at last ... |
Cadwallon | ... ho was killed at the battle of Hatfield Chase by a combined force including | , a British king of Gwynedd, and Penda. At the time of this victory, Penda ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... te, also known as the and the , was a feudal regime of Japan established by | and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as t ... |
Omphale | In Greek myth, Lydia was also the first home of the double-axe, the labrys. | , daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was ... |
Clovis | He died in 481 and was buried in Tournai. His son | succeeded him as king of the Franks |
William the Lion | ... bey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary. | granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the rank of a Royal Burgh in 1186 ... |
Kublai Khan | ... ictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of Edward I and | . Costain's narration includes technology such as the compass, the telesco ... |
Henry VIII | ... ices, and attacked the abuses and excesses of the Catholic Church. In 1521, | responded to Luther’s criticisms with a work known as the Assertio, writte ... |
Emperor Guangwu | ... monarch Liu Penzi. Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as | (r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Kunyang in 23 ... |
Minos | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and | . When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos ... |
Catherine the Great’s | Pavlovsk Palace was built by | son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francop ... |
Leopold I | ... eslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor | and of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on ... |
William the Conqueror | ... ates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for | at the Battle of Hastings. The d'Albini (or d'Aubigny) family originated f ... |
Louis XIV | ... ough the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of | , the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, ... |
Muhammad 'al-Nasir' | In 1212, the Almohad Caliph | (1199–1214), the successor of al-Mansur, after an initially successful adv ... |
Philip IV of France | ... o receive the western part of his lands (Barrois mouvant) as a fief by King | . The Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1475 campaigned for the Duchy of ... |
Henry III of England | # King | (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272). Married Eleanor of Provence, by whom ... |
Princess Christina | ... -Nassau, he has participated in the New York City Marathon, where his aunt, | , and several cousins live. In the Netherlands, he was a participant in th ... |
Elagabalus | ... gious missions of holy men from India passing through Syria on their way to | or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor. His accounts were quoted by Porp ... |
Judas the Maccabee | ... hed under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus, two decades after his brother | ("Hammer") defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt. Accordi ... |
Justinian I | ... e who were guilty of it were condemned to be publicly burned alive. Emperor | (527–565 CE) made homosexuals a scapegoat for problems such as "famines, e ... |
Sarpedon | According to Herodotus, Europa had (at least) two sons, | and Minos. When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native lan ... |
Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
Magneto | Early X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemy | and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ... |
Ahab | ... ful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included | , Ahaziah and Joram |
William the Conqueror | ... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, | , spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ... |
Licinius | ... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and | |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime of | as its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ... |
Alexios I Komnenos | ... rom the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor | . Historians agree that the fate of Jerusalem and thereby the Church of th ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... ed her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and | . Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in ... |
Albert I of Belgium | ... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - | - Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ... |
Prince Charles | ... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid. | of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ... |
German Emperor Frederick III | ... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter of | and sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ... |
Ermengarde | ... Pious, Lothair also received the Kingdom of Italy. In 821, Lothair married | (d. 851), daughter of Hugh the Count of Tours. In 822, he assumed the gove ... |
Antigonus I Monophthalmus | ... – 283 BC), called Poliorcetes (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son of | and Stratonice, was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Ant ... |
Nero | ... was named after the Colossus of Rhodes). This statue was later remodeled by | 's successors into the likeness of Helios (Sol) or Apollo, the sun god, by ... |
Totila | ... ire. Initially, the Byzantines were successful, but under the leadership of | , the Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at ... |
Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
Louis XIV | ... atin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to | , who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal libra ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
Qianlong | ... nspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors Kangxi and | made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reaching Hangzhou |
Charles II of England | ... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, which | ordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ... |
Kunigunde of Austria | The marriage of his daughter | to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ... |
Mpande kaSenzangakhona | ... tlers led by Pretorius at the Battle of Blood River. Dingane's half brother | then defected with some 17,000 followers and allied with the Boers against ... |
Henry V of England | During the Hundred Years' War, on 19 January 1419, Rouen surrendered to | , who annexed Normandy once again to the Plantagenet domains. But Rouen di ... |
King Henry VII | ... Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's work, however, little mentions | , the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John ... |
Maxentius | ... e as emperor, Constantine's portrait was brought to Rome, as was customary. | mocked the portrait's subject as the son of a harlot, and lamented his own ... |
Titus | ... s destruction and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under | and Hadrian. They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and D ... |
King George V | ... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 | and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ... |
Maximilian II | ... ves largely converted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, | , Rudolf II, and Mathias largely tolerated |
Sarpedon | ... , the Lycian contingent was said to have been led by two esteemed warriors: | (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus) |
The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
Ashur-uballit II | ... ght and where Josiah was killed. Necho then joined forces with the Assyrian | and together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran. The combi ... |
Albrecht von Wallenstein | ... ion. In order to muster an imperial army to continue the war, he applied to | , one of the richest men in Bohemia: the latter accepted on condition that ... |
Erysichthon | In another tale, Demeter punished | of Thessaly by inflicting him with insatiable hunger after he cut down a t ... |
Henry IV of England | ... bowstaves to England was in 1294. In 1350 there was a serious shortage, and | ordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods ... |
Habibullah Khan | ... ost rebellion of 1923-24. Religious leaders, who had gained influence under | , were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms |
Charles II of England | ... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King | through the Connecticut Charter of 1662 |
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes | # | (1 June 1134 Rouen- 26 July 1158 Nantes) died unmarried and was buried in ... |
Burebista | ... arded as "the one true god" by most Dacians and many Thracians. During King | 's reign the year of Zalmoxis' death was marked as the first day of the Da ... |
Placidia | ... icated in 649. In response, Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace of | and exiled or imprisoned the papal nuncios. But he also sought to end the ... |
Henry II of England | # | (1133–1189 |
Kangxi | ... s to lead inspection tours to southern China. In the Qing Dynasty, emperors | and Qianlong made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reac ... |
Alfonso | ... and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor | ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son James II, who f ... |
Louis | ... en elected King of Provence. In the summer of 880 the brothers Carloman and | marched against him, took Mâcon and the northern parts of Boso's realm. Th ... |
Hadrian | ... ion and hardship, such as the massive loss of life in Judea under Titus and | . They would also refer to the dire warnings in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, ... |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck | On December 15, 2006, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty | , abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince Jigme Khesar Namg ... |
Bellerophon | Lycia appears elsewhere in Greek myth, such as in the story of | , who eventually succeeded to the throne of the Lycian king Iobates (or Am ... |
Dingane kaSenzangakhona | ... assinated by one of his iNdunas and two of his half-brothers, one of which, | , succeeded him as king. By the 1830s migrating Boers came into conflict w ... |
Joachim Murat | Meanwhile in Italy, | , whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's in ... |
Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
Augustus | The Romans had a preference for standardization whenever they could, so | , after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in 20 BC, set up the mili ... |
Artaxerxes I | ... Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King | of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and ... |
Sparta | ... ttoman Empire, European travelers and scholars began to systematically tour | and the Peloponnnese. Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet p ... |
Princess Louise | ... It was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter | , wife of the Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada |
David | ... contrast to the Muslim position Christians do not credit all the Psalms to | (Daud), indeed a common view is that only half of the psalms were created ... |
Inayatullah Khan | ... rth. In January 1929, Amanullah abdicated the throne to his oldest brother, | , who ruled for only three days before escaping into exile in British-Indi ... |
James II | ... uccessor Alfonso ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son | , who first acceded to the throne of Sicily and then succeeded his older b ... |
Septimius Severus | ... ril 188 – 8 April 217) was Roman emperor from 198 to 217. The eldest son of | , for a short time he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until he ... |
Peada | ... t the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of Northumbria. Penda's son | became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdered a year later. Wulf ... |
Bolkiah | ... cient Japan and Song Dynasty China. The city was invaded by Brunei's Sultan | and was already Islamized by the 15th century when the Spanish first arriv ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
Albert II of Belgium | ... mittee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium - Albert I of Belgium - | - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan Beter - Alveringem - An ... |
Holy Roman Emperor | ... emian diet, in 1618, King of Hungary by the Hungarian estates, and in 1619, | |
Philip II of Spain | ... mpton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King | to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage wa ... |
Edward I of England | ... 05, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King | , who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes aga ... |
Boso | However, Duke | had renounced his allegiance to both brothers and had been elected King of ... |
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... Society of Jesus began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit-educated | , who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola before becoming Holy Roma ... |
Alfonso V | Ferdinand's successor, | ("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ... |
Henry II of France | ... rice of Saxony by the Treaty of Chambord ceded the Three Bishoprics to King | in turn for his support |
Alexander Balas | ... viving brother of the defeated rebel Timarchus, who championed the cause of | , a boy who claimed to be a natural son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Heracle ... |
Psamtik I | ... that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh | only a year earlier (610 BC). Presumably in an attempt to help the Babylon ... |
Aegeus | ... us, the son of Pandion II of Athens, driven into exile by his brother, King | , settled among the Termilae. They named it Lycia after him. Herodotus end ... |
Charles the Bold | # 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ... |
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | ... who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; and secondly | , by whom she had issue |
Zenobia | ... rn provinces of the empire, the so-called "Palmyrene Empire" ruled by Queen | from the city of Palmyra. Zenobia had carved out her own empire, encompass ... |
King George II | ... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British | . However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ... |
Tsar Alexander III | ... ll come true." Alix reciprocated his feelings. At first, Nicholas's father, | , refused the prospect of marriage |
Penda | Wulfhere's father, | , was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, fighting against Oswiu of No ... |
Kaleb | ... eginning of the 6th century and began to massacre the Christians. Outraged, | , the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Empe ... |
Shaka | | , the first Zulu king, had, through war and conquest, built the small Zulu ... |
Yuan Shikai | ... ional president of the republic. However, the presidency was later given to | , a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire Beiya ... |
Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
Domitian | ... ompleted in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during | 's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespa ... |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... me Singye Wangchuck, abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince | , with a specific intention to prepare the young King for the country's tr ... |
Pygmalion of Tyre | ... k form of Carthage. Timaeus made Carchedon's wife Elissa the sister of King | . Archaeological evidence of settlement on the site of Carthage before the ... |
Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
Al-Hadi | ... tury up to and including the present day. Abbasid Baghdad, under the Caliph | (785–786 CE), punished homosexuality with death |
Menen Asfaw | ... d that in the interest of preserving the Imperial house, the emperor's wife | and the rest of the imperial family should immediately depart for Djibouti ... |
King Henry VIII | As secretary and personal adviser to | , More became increasingly influential in the government, welcoming foreig ... |
Fausta | ... ul to confer with Constantine in late 307. He offered to marry his daughter | to Constantine, and elevate him to Augustan rank. In return, Constantine w ... |
Queen Mary | ... nd it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915 King George V and | visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched an advertising c ... |
Charles I of England | ... and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King | (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly ... |